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...
16 Jan, 2024, 10.45 PM IST
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...
16 Jan, 2024, 12.03 AM IST
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 ...
12 Feb, 2022, 11.34 PM IST
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 ...
12 Jun, 2020, 01.26 PM IST
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 ...
20 Jan, 2020, 11.32 PM IST
View: India needs a new methodology to gather dataA gap has grown for decades between consumption as reported by GDP data and NSSO surveys.
20 Nov, 2019, 06.15 AM IST
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...
08 Apr, 2016, 02.22 PM IST
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...
27 Apr, 2014, 05.20 PM IST
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.
30 Oct, 2013, 04.56 PM IST
- 23% poverty target unrealistic for 2015
India'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%...
03 Jul, 2012, 08.50 AM IST
- 5 crore people moved out of poverty: Government
The 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...
20 Mar, 2012, 06.28 AM IST
- Inequality rises in India, says OECD
India has become "less equal over time" and earnings inequality in the country has increased significantly since the early 1990s, OECD said.
05 Dec, 2011, 08.26 PM IST
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.
07 Oct, 2011, 11.18 AM IST
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 ...
07 Jul, 2011, 10.44 AM IST
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.
25 May, 2010, 02.47 AM IST
Poverty reduction and creationThe statistics on poverty hide as much as they reveal, providing fresh insights into the poor simultaneously overcoming and being consumed ...
25 Jan, 2010, 06.18 AM IST
- 11th Plan aims to reduce poverty by 10 percentage points
The Eleventh Plan is proposing to reduce by 10 percentage points the incidence of poverty in the country, which has 'hardly' declined for m...
08 Nov, 2007, 11.09 AM IST