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3 days ago
- Entertainment
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Giants news, 5/26: Quarterback stuff, NFC East position rankings, more
Good morning, New York Giants fans! Thank you on this Memorial Day to all those who served, and to their families who have sacrificed to protect this nation. From Big Blue View Better or worse in 2025? New York Giants quarterbacks Did the Giants close the talent gap? Ranking NFC East offenses position-by-position Big Blue View mailbag: Joe Schoen, Jaxson Dart's development, position coaches, more More headlines Jevon Holland Brings Star Potential to New York Giants | Athlon Sports Super Bowl winner Chris Canty believes Jevon Holland is a budding star for the New York Giants. Advertisement 2024 NFL QB Rankings: Insights Into Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes, and Others | Pro Football Network Where does Russell Wilson rank? One impact offseason acquisition for each NFL team based on PFF Data | Pro Football Focus New York Giants: QB Russell Wilson Key Metric: 97.3 deep passing grade in 2024 (Highest in NFL) Russell Wilson brings his patented moon ball to Gotham City after leading the NFL with a 97.3 deep passing grade last season. Even with the addition of superstar wide receiver Malik Nabers, the Giants struggled to throw the ball downfield last season. As a team, they recorded just a 67.4 deep passing grade in 2024, 4th-worst in the NFL. BBV mailbag Have a Giants-related question? E-mail it to bigblueview@ and it might be featured in our weekly mailbag. BBV YouTube You can find and subscribe to Big Blue View YouTube from the show's home page BBV on X: Follow @BigBlueView | Ed Valentine: @Valentine_Ed | Threads: @ | Bluesky: @edvalentine BBV on Facebook: Click here to like the Big Blue View Facebook page Advertisement BBV on YouTube: Subscribe to the Big Blue View YouTube channel BBV on Instagram: Click here to follow our Instagram page More from
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15-05-2025
- Sport
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Giants news, 5/15: 2025 schedule released, Jameis Winston, Tae Banks, more
Good morning, New York Giants fans! From Big Blue View Giants 2025 schedule: One thought on every game and a record prediction 2025 New York Giants schedule: When could we see Jaxson Dart start? New York Giants 2025 NFL schedule release: Leaks, rumors tracker — the full schedule has been reported New York Giants schedule: A miserable opening month More headlines Giants CB Dru Phillips Gives a Positive Report on Teammate Deonte Banks New York Giants cornerback Deonte Banks had a disappointing second season last year, but his teammate says things might be looking up for him this year. Which 2025 NFL Draft picks are the best values, according to 'The Beast'? - The Athletic As always, there were some steals during draft weekend. Who were our favorites this year? Giants great Carl Banks rips fans who make it look like 'our entire fan base is dumb' - On Wednesday, a former New York Giants player questioned some Giants fans football knowledge. Why the Giants shouldn't trade Jameis Winston to the Saints - The Athletic Winston's true value to the Giants might not be fully realized until 2026. BBV mailbag Have a Giants-related question? E-mail it to bigblueview@ and it might be featured in our weekly mailbag. BBV YouTube You can find and subscribe to Big Blue View YouTube from the show's home page BBV on X: Follow @BigBlueView | Ed Valentine: @Valentine_Ed | Threads: @ | Bluesky: @edvalentine Advertisement BBV on Facebook: Click here to like the Big Blue View Facebook page BBV on YouTube: Subscribe to the Big Blue View YouTube channel BBV on Instagram: Click here to follow our Instagram page More from
The Wire
30-04-2025
- Business
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World Bank Report on India's Incredible Poverty Reduction Isn't Credible
The World Bank released a poverty and equity brief for India on April 22 which began with the following text: Over the past decade, India has significantly reduced poverty. Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2 percent in 2011-12 to 2.3 percent in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above this line. This would of course be fantastic news, if true. However, for anyone even vaguely familiar with the poverty numbers, the 2.3% headcount ratio for extreme poverty seems a little too good to be true. Furthering the confusion, the World Bank had significantly different estimates in its October 2024 brief: Following strong post-COVID-19 growth, averaging 8 percent, extreme poverty in India declined by 2 percentage points. In FY 2021/22, 44 percent of the population remained below the lower-middle-income poverty line ($3.65/day 2017 PPP), and 12.9 percent were below the extreme poverty line ($2.15/day 2017 PPP). Under the assumption that both of these reports are accurate, the 10.6% poverty reduction, from 12.9% in 2021-22 to 2.3% in 2022-23, would surely count as a world record. In the absence of a vastly underreported magical showering of wealth upon 140 million-plus people in the lowest income brackets in India, it is natural to ask what is behind the sudden change in the numbers reported by the World Bank during the last six months. The mundane answer is a switchover in the methodology for reporting poverty estimates for India. To understand the magnitude of the difference, we have to delve into some details and controversies surrounding poverty estimation in India. Despite breathless headlines about World Bank data endorsing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim, the first thing to understand is that the underlying data in the 2025 report come from the Indian government's Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) for 2022-2023. The World Bank only calculates poverty statistics from survey data, so ascribing results to World Bank data is misleading. Beginning in the 1950s, the Indian government used to conduct a Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) every five years, which formed the basis for poverty related calculations. In 2019, the BJP government decided not to release 2017-2018 CES data, claiming that there were 'data quality' issues, while deflecting insinuations that adverse findings were the reason for its decision. Due to this gap in the data, economists came up with creative ways of estimating poverty ratios. Two papers published in April 2022, the first by Bhalla, Bhasin, and Virmani (BBV), and the second by Roy and van der Wiede (RW), used very different techniques, and came up with dramatically different poverty headcount ratio estimates for 2019-2020 of just under 2% and 10% respectively. Briefly, BBV used national accounts statistics (basically, those used for GDP calculations) to scale up the consumption expenditure distribution from 2011-2012. On the other hand, RW used an alternative survey, the Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS), conducted by Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a private entity. The two approaches, and the drastically different results they generated, set off a lively debate that continues to generate criticism and alternative proposals. In its October 2022 brief, the World Bank decided to adopt the RW technique. This was unusual because of its reliance on a survey conducted by a private entity, even though it had the virtue of producing a more plausible poverty headcount ratio. In April 2025, the World Bank has now switched back to using the Indian government's survey, the 2022-2023 HCES. Before thinking about the credibility of the results, it is useful to get a sense of the rupee incomes associated with various poverty lines used by the World Bank. For the conversion, we need to use the purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor, which differs significantly from current exchange rates. The interpretation of the PPP conversion factor of Rs 20.15/$ is that, given different cost structures in India and the US, people can obtain the same level of goods and services for Rs 20.15 in India that they can in the US for $1. World Bank Poverty Thresholds (PPP conversion factor ₹20.15/$) Per person per day (2017 PPP) Per person per month Family of four per month Extreme Poverty Line $2.15 Rs 1,300 Rs 5,199 Lower-middle-income Country Poverty Line $3.65 Rs 2,206 Rs 8,826 Upper-middle-income Country Poverty line $6.85 Rs 4,141 Rs 16,563 Source: World Bank; table a ssumes 30 days per month. So, the 2.3% headcount ratio in the April 2025 brief refers to families living on less than Rs 5,200 per month. This is an absurdly low level of consumption. The very same World Bank report mentions that if we look at the $3.65 per person per day threshold, the poverty rate is 28.1%, which unfortunately is not as headline friendly. Economist S. Subramanian has provided a thorough analysis of the 2022-2023 HCES data. He computes a headcount ratio of 3% for 2022-2023 using the Tendulkar Committee poverty line, updated to 2022-2023 prices, a number that is comparable to the number in the 2025 World Bank brief. This rules out the possibility that the World Bank calculation methodology is the reason for the low poverty ratio. Very low poverty lines – which are clearly useful devices to arrive at low poverty headcount ratios – are not confined to the World Bank alone. India's poverty line based upon the 2009 Tendulkar committee recommendation has been long criticised for being too low. The 2014 Rangarajan committee recommended higher thresholds, but those were not adopted. These thresholds, updated to 2022-2023 prices, are shown below. India (2022-2023 values) Per person per month Family of four per month Rural Urban Rural Urban All India Tendulkar Committee Poverty Line Rs 1,500 Rs 1,866 Rs 6,000 Rs 7,464 Rs 6,527 Rangarajan Committee Poverty Line Rs 1,794 Rs 2,720 ₹7,176 ₹10,880 ₹8,509 All India values calculated by author as weighted averages of rural and urban numbers assuming 64% of the population is rural. Source: S. Subramanian There are plenty of reasons to find the 2.3% headcount ratio to be implausible. Briefly, the steep drop of 14 percentage points in 11 years is difficult to digest given several macroeconomic events and indicators in this period. There were large shocks to the economy: the infliction of demonetisation and the affliction of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of the pandemic and lockdown induced contraction, there was a massive loss of employment and significant reverse (urban-to-rural) migration. Agriculture's share of output has remained more or less constant for the last two decades, and manufacturing's share has declined, so service sector jobs and wages have to be responsible for improvements in standards of living. This, of course, may have occurred for people in well-paying professions like software development, finance, health care etc. but it is hard to see it having an impact on the incomes of millions of people close to the poverty threshold, especially in rural India. Post-pandemic consumption expenditure patterns were reported to be 'K-shaped' (high-end goods selling well, consumer goods sales flattening or declining), indicating stressed budgets among lower income groups. Urban unemployment, according to the government's quarterly survey data, averaged around 7% in 2022-2023. Given all this, what was the source of the incomes necessary for large scale poverty reduction? These are all issues that are easy to obfuscate behind opaque data, bad faith argumentation, shifting goalposts, technical skullduggery and relentless propaganda aided by pliant media and a chronically attention-deficit plagued public. So, here's the simple takeaway: if you choose a very low poverty line, you get a very low poverty rate. Not too surprising that about 2% to 3% of the population lives in households with income levels of less than Rs 5,200 per month.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Health
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HIV and Hepatitis screening for A&E patients
Patients at emergency departments at Cambridgeshire hospitals will be screened for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C under new plans. The move comes after the NHS outlined ambitions to end new HIV cases in England by 2030. The NHS launched a national blood-borne virus (BBV) opt-out testing programme in April 2022 to allow testing in local areas where those infections had a high prevalence. Peterborough City Hospital (PCH) and Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, run by Northwest Anglia Foundation NHS Trust, have now joined the scheme. The NHS has confirmed it was extending the program to almost 90 Accident and Emergency (A&E) units in England, following the government 's £27m rollout to 30 new hospitals. The government said the changes could lead to an extra 1,900 people receiving earlier care for HIV each year. At PCH and Hinchingbrooke, patients aged 18 and over who attend the emergency department will have a blood test as part of the care. The BBV testing is an opt-out test, meaning every blood test will automatically be screened for these viruses, unless a patient tells staff not to test their sample. All tests and results are confidential, with patients only being contacted further if a "non-negative" result is shown. If patients are not required to have a blood test during their visit, they will not be tested. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. NHS to expand opt-out HIV and hepatitis testing HIV-positive man welcomes A&E blood testing A&E patients to be tested for HIV and hepatitis North West Anglia Foundation NHS Trust
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25-03-2025
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HIV and Hepatitis screening for A&E patients
Patients at emergency departments at Cambridgeshire hospitals will be screened for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C under new plans. The move comes after the NHS outlined ambitions to end new HIV cases in England by 2030. The NHS launched a national blood-borne virus (BBV) opt-out testing programme in April 2022 to allow testing in local areas where those infections had a high prevalence. Peterborough City Hospital (PCH) and Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, run by Northwest Anglia Foundation NHS Trust, have now joined the scheme. The NHS has confirmed it was extending the program to almost 90 Accident and Emergency (A&E) units in England, following the government 's £27m rollout to 30 new hospitals. The government said the changes could lead to an extra 1,900 people receiving earlier care for HIV each year. At PCH and Hinchingbrooke, patients aged 18 and over who attend the emergency department will have a blood test as part of the care. The BBV testing is an opt-out test, meaning every blood test will automatically be screened for these viruses, unless a patient tells staff not to test their sample. All tests and results are confidential, with patients only being contacted further if a "non-negative" result is shown. If patients are not required to have a blood test during their visit, they will not be tested. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. NHS to expand opt-out HIV and hepatitis testing HIV-positive man welcomes A&E blood testing A&E patients to be tested for HIV and hepatitis North West Anglia Foundation NHS Trust
