A look at the numbers in India's fight against povertyIndia has made tremendous progress in lifting people out of poverty, according to the latest Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) brought o...
21 Oct, 2022, 01.37 AM IST
Kerala's poverty index achievement reflective of govt's "unwavering commitment" towards social welfare: VijayanNITI Aayog's Multi-dimensional Poverty (MPI) Index listed the state as the one with lowest poverty of 0.71 per cent across India, followed ...
26 Nov, 2021, 10.21 PM IST
Efforts on to improve India's rank in key global indices, Lok Sabha toldThe key ministries which are closely watched include the ministry of health and family welfare, the ministry of education, the ministry of ...
10 Mar, 2021, 12.49 PM IST
India ranks 116 in World Bank's Human Capital IndexThe 2020 Human Capital Index update includes health and education data for 174 countries - covering 98 per cent of the world's population -...
17 Sep, 2020, 12.45 PM IST
India moves from 130 to 129 in human development index: UNDP reportIn India, 27.1 crore people were lifted out of poverty from 2005-06 to 2015-16, UNDP India resident representative Shoko Noda said. India r...
09 Dec, 2019, 04.06 PM IST
UN report: 'Progress has bypassed groups, communities'Lofven said it was time ``to raise the bar,'' adding new challenges have surfaced _ including climate change, desperate migration, terroris...
22 Mar, 2017, 08.43 AM IST
India up five slots but still 130th on HDIIndia ranked a lowly 130 in the HDI even if up from last year's 135 in the list of 188 nations, thanks to higher life expectancy and gross ...
15 Dec, 2015, 01.04 PM IST
India's black money market larger than country's total spending on education and healthWealth earned from crime, corruption and tax evasion, and illegally taken out of the country tops India's total spending on education or he...
05 Jun, 2015, 10.43 AM IST
India needs multi-pronged approach to eradicate poverty: ReportThe observations are part of the India Public Policy Report (IPPR) 2014 jointly published by O P Jindal Global University and Oxford Univer...
04 Apr, 2014, 05.00 PM IST
- India made progress in cutting multidimensional poverty: Study
India reduced multidimensional poverty more than 50% faster than it reduced income poverty in absolute as well as relative terms, the Unive...
18 Mar, 2013, 03.37 PM IST
- 41.6% of Indians below poverty line in 2005 as per UNDP: Government
UN estimates that 41.6%of India's population lived below the poverty line in 2005, but Planning Commission had pegged the figure lower at 3...
23 Nov, 2011, 02.35 PM IST
- Growth, reforms lift living standards in India: Human development Index
HDI improvement was led by a 28.5% increase in the education index, which ranged from 0.41 in Bihar to 0.92 for Kerala.
22 Oct, 2011, 04.17 AM IST
- Growth story doesn't extend to education, health
India is one of the world's top-10 performers in terms of income growth over the last 40 years, but is far outperformed by much poorer coun...
05 Nov, 2010, 05.06 AM IST
- '8 Indian states poorer than Africa’s 26 poorest'
Eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together account for more poor people than the 26 poorest African nati...
13 Jul, 2010, 07.00 AM IST
- More poor in eight states than 26 African nations
A UNDP survey says that eight Indian states have more poor than 26 African nations put together.
13 Jul, 2010, 06.46 AM IST
- 8 Indian states have more poor than 26 poorest African nations
Acute poverty prevails in eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together accounting for more poor people tha...
12 Jul, 2010, 04.54 PM IST
- Understand relation between growth pattern and poverty
NEW DELHI: Planning Commission deputy chairman K C Pant today said the major factor constraining the inclusion of specific poverty reductio...
12 Jan, 2002, 01.25 AM IST