General Studies II · Subtopic
Measurement and distribution
Official syllabus
Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
UPSC CSE 2026 notification
What this covers
Compare consumption-based and multidimensional poverty measures, their denominators, reference years and distributional limits without inferring a current rate from old data.
Key ideas
- Consumption measure
- Multidimensional deprivation
- Reference period
- Distribution
- Uncertainty