India has made significant progress in poverty reduction, lifting 171 million people out of extreme poverty, with rates ...

Bizarre as it may seem, especially for a country with so many people at low levels of income and consumption, as well as a ...

Recently, the World Bank came out with an update on the methodology and level of its poverty line. What does this update say ...

It’s worthwhile to remember that Japan is a country of 123 million people, with a per capita income of $33900. Meanwhile, India is a country of 1.46 billion people with a per capita income of $2880.

Though India’s national metric for this is under the process of being finalised, recent World Bank data shows that extreme ...

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday asked major private banks to extend more credit to poor people of the state under various welfare schemes. Majhi said this while meeting ...

Congress' Bihar in-charge Krishna Allavaru says his party and INDIA bloc constituents oppose ECI's voter list revision ...

India has made remarkable progress in expanding its social security coverage, with more than 25 crore people moving out of ...

There is clear evidence that poverty has declined in India. But overstating the extent of this fall by ignoring the limits of the new data goes against sound research.