Poverty measurement is an unsettled issue, both conceptually and methodologically. Since poverty is a process as an outcome many come out of it while others may be falling into it. The net effect of these two parallel processes is a proportion commonly identified as the head count ratio, but these ratios hide the fundamental dynamsin that chareacterises poverty in paractice. The most recent poverty reestimates by an expert group has alos missed the crucial dynamism. In a study conducted on 13,000 households which represented the entire country isn 1993- 94 and again on 2004-05, it was found that in the ten-years period 18.2% rural popluation moved out of poverty where another 22.1% fell into it over this period. This net increase of about four perecntange points was seen to have a considerable variation across states and regions.
which of the following is an inference which can be made form the facts stated in the above paragraph ?

Options

A. Poverty measurement tools in India are outdated.
B. Increase in number of persons falling into poverty varies consderably across the country over a period of time .
C. Governmet of India has stopped measuring poverty related studies.
D. People living in rural areas are more susceptible to fall into poverty over the time.

Answer

B

Explanation

From the facts and data given in passage, we can make inference that increase in number of persons falling into poverty varies considerably across the country over a period oftime.