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MGNREGS work demand not directly correlated to rural distress: Economic SurveyKerala and Tamil Nadu utilize more MGNREGS funds despite having fewer poor, unlike Bihar and UP. No link with unemployment rates. Instituti...- Poverty in India declines to 8.5% from 21.2% in 2011-12: NCAER paperPoverty 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...
- Brookings report backs PM Modi's policy thrust, says it helped eliminate extreme povertyA commentary authored by economists Surjit Bhalla and Karan Bhasin from The Brookings Institution stated that the pace of poverty reduction...
- In last 3 years poverty head count ratio has come down by 25 per cent: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa SarmaSarma said the poverty headcount ratio in the state has come down from 36.97 per cent in 2013-14 to 14.47 per cent in 2022-23. He added tha...
- 250 million people escaped multi-dimensional poverty between 2013-14 and 2022-23: NITI AayogAccording to the Aayog's working paper, jointly developed with UNDP, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan registering the hig...
- Poverty in numbers: What does the data tell us?As per the World Inequality Report, the top 10% and the top 1% in India still control 57% and 22% of the national wealth, while the bottom ...
- Extreme poverty could rise to over one billion people globally due to covid-19 crisis: ReportResearchers from King's College London and Australian National University published the new paper with the United Nations University World ...
- View: It's time to scrutinise the link between poverty and income inequalityWhy does the rise of crorepatis cause poverty to increase? Much of their wealth gains are due to property and stock market booms, which do ...
- View: India needs a new methodology to gather dataA gap has grown for decades between consumption as reported by GDP data and NSSO surveys.
- 60 million Pakistanis living under poverty lineAs many as 60 million Pakistanis are living below the poverty line, making almost a third of the country's population poor under a new form...
- Lok Sabha polls: Why no talk of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece joining Congress, asks P ChidambaramShukla, a former Lok Sabha MP, had resigned from BJP in October last year, alleging that she was being "continuously neglected" by senior l...
- India may not fully achieve the MDGs by 2015: ReportMDGs are international development goals that UN member states , including India, have agreed to achieve by the year 2015.
- 23% poverty target unrealistic for 2015India's poverty rates fell from 51% to 37% between 1990 and 2008. But it will still not reach the required Poverty Headcount Ratio of 23.9%...
- 5 crore people moved out of poverty: GovernmentThe new estimates are based on a poverty line that averages Rs 672.8 per month (Rs 22.43 per day) in rural areas and Rs 859.6 per month (Rs...
- Inequality rises in India, says OECDIndia has become "less equal over time" and earnings inequality in the country has increased significantly since the early 1990s, OECD said.
- We must learn to live with growing income inequalityWe should be clearer and less sanctimonious about inequality. Poverty is an absolute concept. Inequality is relative.
- Does food inflation hurt the poor?Whether intended or not, the presumption that the poor are not likely to be hurt much or, if hurt, cannot be protected against rising food ...
- Unrealistic poverty estimates prompted govt to set up expert panel: TendulkarThe former chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council explained why his numbers are more credible in an interview with ET.
- Poverty reduction and creationThe statistics on poverty hide as much as they reveal, providing fresh insights into the poor simultaneously overcoming and being consumed ...
- 11th Plan aims to reduce poverty by 10 percentage pointsThe Eleventh Plan is proposing to reduce by 10 percentage points the incidence of poverty in the country, which has 'hardly' declined for m...
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