Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing, that the first meeting with the South Asian countries on anti-epi...

Big picture reforms will eradicate poverty, not small tweaks to programmes that botique RCTs provide.

The report published by China's State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development said it was equivalent to an annu...

The main challenges remain domestic, and include policy uncertainty as well as fiscal and financial vulnerabilities.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) said that more than 66 billion yuan ($10 billion) has been approved for local authorities, up over 40 per cen...

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...

Xi Jinping has announced a $2 billion fund to support South-South cooperation in addition to launching the "Six 100s" initiative.

The latest estimates show that the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day globally fell from 36 per cent in 1990 to 15 per ce...

“Identifying and efficiently reaching the poor is a formidable challenge in many countries,” the report noted, while flagging India’s initi...

The rupee has recovered "smartly" against the US dollar and has stabilised around 61, which is "more or less correct exchange rate", FM has...

By the end of 2012, there were nearly 100 mn rural residents still living in poverty, the report issued by the State Council said.

Despite widespread poverty in the country, India is on track to meet UN's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of poverty reduction by 2015, a...

A United Nations' report has made it clear that given the realities of climate change 'growing first and cleaning up later' is no longer an...

As many as 320 million people in India and China are expected to come out of extreme poverty in the next four years.

India has contributed to a large reduction in global poverty, according to the UN annual report on the Millennium Development Goals.

By committing a 20% reduction in emission intensity while the west is making negligible effort, India may have compromised its interest.

Neeraj Kaushal: India has not seen the kind of declines in poverty as witnessed in most of east Asia during the 1980s and much of the 1990s.