Dani Rodrik highlights the relationship between ending poverty, boosting the global middle class, and addressing climate change. He emphasi...

From MSME finance and AI skilling to blended capital and climate investment, AVPN CEO Naina Subberwal Batra explains why coordination is be...

Quote of the Day by Mother Teresa: “The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.” The quote highlights a simp...

Economist Thomas Piketty says India can escape the middle-income trap through massive investment in education, healthcare and infrastructur...

Childhood obesity is rapidly increasing in developing nations, creating a significant health challenge. This epidemic is now outpacing unde...

The IFDA has backing from 131 WTO members, including 94 developing countries, and focuses on reducing red tape and making it easier to attr...

A State Bank of India report estimates India's poverty rate to decline to 4.6% in 2024, a significant drop from the World Bank's 5.3% estim...

A World Bank report reveals India lifted 170 million people out of poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, with extreme poverty declining sign...

Poverty in India declined from 21.2% in 2011-12 to 8.5% in 2022-24, despite pandemic challenges, according to NCAER's report "Rethinking So...

India's poverty rate declined to 4.5-5% in 2022-23, with rural poverty declining to 7.2% and urban poverty down to 4.6%. This decline is at...

The average decline in number of multidimensionally poor was higher for aspirational districts between 2015-16 and 2019-21. However, they s...

The extreme poverty count fell from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 and the decline in rural areas was much higher than in urban areas, esti...

Poverty and its public policy implication are clear. Clarity on inequality is more difficult. For a start, inequality is relative and the w...

An individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban and Rs 672.8 in rural areas is not considered poor, as per the controversial...

Riding on the better social indicators like health and primary education, India has achieved an over 27 per cent decline in poverty and is ...

The poverty ratio in the country has come down to 22% from 36% in 1993-94 as per initial estimates, the government said.

NEW DELHI: Planning Commission deputy chairman K C Pant today said the major factor constraining the inclusion of specific poverty reductio...