The decision to use the SECC-2011 data was taken after the Sumit Bose Committee in its report favoured using the same for rural development...

The government will now replace parameters like number of seedlings planted and food security with performance of states under Swachh Bhara...

Xi Jinping to lift the remaining over 70 million people in the world's second biggest economy out of poverty by 2020, which amounts to a mi...

A UN body today said only Rs 10,000 is all that is needed annually per person living in extreme poverty to eradicate world hunger by 2030.

India is walking the talk in its efforts to contribute to the success of the ambitious post-2015 Development Agenda through the national ta...

The observations are part of the India Public Policy Report (IPPR) 2014 jointly published by O P Jindal Global University and Oxford Univer...

Successive governments have attempted but failed to exorcise the ghost of starvation death, which continues to prowl the countryside, routi...

In a joint press conference with state Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Kim said, "We have called on two fundamental ideas one is end to pove...

India and Botswana today agreed to actively collaborate and share experiences in the area of human settlements, including slum development.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, economists Yoginder Alagh & DT Lakdawala defined the poverty line in terms of the spending on food required.

A political storm unleashed in Parliament on Tues, with the Opposition charging the govt with hiding dire poverty by using new poverty esti...

Poverty cannot be viewed merely as a set of indicators, as a one-dimensional phenomenon.

There are grim statistics for India in the UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report released on Friday.

The Administrative Reforms Commission has recommended a nationwide survey of the urban poor so that they can avail benefits under all pover...

Eradication of poverty, a prime focus for the UPA government, seems to have been given the short shrift. Housing and poverty alleviation mi...

Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayanamurthy on Friday said rupee appreciation was a macro economic issue and called upon corporates to become m...

The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) projects in developing countries will focus on innovative strategies for era...