https://progressive.international/wire/2025-11-06-pi-briefing-no-40-kerala-ends-extreme-poverty/en

The Extreme Poverty Eradication Project (EPEP) represents a historic victory for the people of Kerala. The southwestern Indian state has long been among the country’s poorest. In the 1970s and 1980s, incomes in Kerala were roughly two-thirds of the national average. In the 2000s, incomes in the state surged ahead of the rest of India and, by 2022, they were over fifty percent higher. In mere decades, Kerala had become one of India’s wealthiest states.