
Manmohan Singh : PM sees reforms benefiting poorBhubaneswar, Dec. 27: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the economic reforms initiated by him almost two decades ago had reduced the number of poor, though much more was still needed to be done.“There is no evidence that the new economic policies have had an adverse effect on the poor,” Singh said at the annual conference of the Indian Economic Association here today.“The percentage of population below the poverty line has certainly not increased....