Earlier this month, the World Bank released its latest report on global poverty. The report stated that because of the Covid-19 led economic crisis, and the Ukraine war there has been an outright reversal in the poverty reduction across the planet. It also highlighted the fact that 80% of the people who became poor in 2020, from across the world, were from India.

And even though this is alarming, it didn’t surprise experts because India has historically struggled with alleviating poverty. When we spoke to Indian Express’ Udit Misra, he told us that there are lessons that India can learn from China in this regard. In this episode, he joins host Shashank Bhargava to talk about these lessons, and how China managed to drastically reduce poverty.