despite the success of china it still had more than million people living on less than us per day in per cent of whom were rural in india the number of extreme poor remains stubbornly close to million with per cent of that number rural inhabitants even with large subsidies to their farmers in the past it was just inequality at the local level that affected individuals utility but the information and communications technology revolution has increased awareness of income differences not only within local regions but also nationally and internationally at the national level there are concerns about ruralurban inequality as well as inequality within each of those broad geographic zones