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...

A commentary authored by economists Surjit Bhalla and Karan Bhasin from The Brookings Institution stated that the pace of poverty reduction...

The decline in inequality and the much modest increase in poverty during the pandemic as observed in various studies is not a finding exclu...

The programme, which was launched by Indira Gandhi in 1975, rates states on their performance under different targets for below poverty lin...

The poverty line had been fixed at Rs 27 in rural areas and Rs 33 in urban areas, levels at which getting two meals may be difficult.

The National Sample Survey Organisation will carry out a nationwide education and health survey starting from January next year.

Poverty level in the country may have declined significantly between 2009-10 and 2011-12, survey shows.

Here is a new set of official statistics that can escalate the politically contentious debate on what constitutes the poverty line.

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

The Planning Commission is likely to constitute an expert group to re-evaluate its claim that poverty has declined in India.

As soon as the House met, Sharad Yadav and Prabodh Panda were on their feet demanding suspension of Question Hour for a discussion on lates...

The Commission's estimates faced criticism in Parliament for its description of poor and resultant fall in people below the poverty line.

The Planning Commission had said that that those spending more than 32 a day in urban areas, or 26 a day in villages, would no longer be el...

A government committee is close to revising the poverty line upwards, bringing more people into the safety net of government support.

The pace of urbanisation in Asia and the Pacific unparalleled by any other region in the world has resulted in growth but has also driven u...

In a finding that is bound to bring smiles to Bhutan's advocates of gross national happiness, a recent study has shown that the gap between...

Economic growth has lifted millions out of extreme poverty, but there is rise in income inequality, says UN report.