Poverty measurement is an unsettled issue, both conceptually and methodologically. Since poverty is a process as an outcome many come out of it whileothers may befallinginto it. The neteffect of these twoparallel processes is a proportion commonly identified as thehead count ratio, butthese ratios hide the fundamental dynamsin that chareacterises poverty in paractice. Themostrecent poverty reestimatesby an expertgrouphas alos missedthecrucialdynamism. In a studyconducted on 13,000 householdswhichrepresented the entire countryisn 1993- 94 andagain on 2004-05, it wasfoundthat in the ten-years period 18.2% rural popluationmoved out of poverty where another 22.1% fellinto it over this period. Thisnet increase of aboutfour perecntangepoints was seen to have a considerablevariation across states and regions. which of the followingis an inferencewhich can be made form the facts stated in the above paragraph ?