Poverty measurement is an unsettled issue, both conceptually and methodologically- Since poverty is a process as well 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 dynamism that characterizes poverty in practice. The most recent poverty re-estimates by an expert group has also missed the crucial dynamism. In a study conducted on 13,000 households which represented the entire country in 1993-­94 and again on 2004-05, it was found that In the ten-year period 18.2% rural population moved out of poverty whereas another 22.1% fell Into It over this period. This net increase of about four percentage points was seen to have a considerable variation across states and regions. Which of the following is a conclusion which can be drawn from the facts stated in the above paragraph?