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EXTREME POVERTY REDUCTION
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- Kerala’s end of extreme poverty: How a lower-middle-income state achieved what few others haveIt should also be noted that it is extreme destitution that is being considered. It would be a different story if the threshold for poverty...12 Nov, 2025, 10.55 PM IST
- 270 million Indians out of extreme poverty list: World BankIndia has made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty. World Bank data shows nearly 270 million people moved out of extreme povert...08 Jun, 2025, 05.30 AM IST
- Extreme poverty in India down to 5.3% in 2022-23: World BankIndia witnessed a significant decline in extreme poverty, dropping from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% recently, even with the World Bank's revis...07 Jun, 2025, 05.17 PM IST
- Pulling out poverty one clump at a timeIndia has made significant strides in poverty reduction, lifting millions out of extreme poverty and transitioning to a low middle-income c...27 Apr, 2025, 10.54 PM IST
- India lifted 170 million out of poverty in a decade: World BankA World Bank report reveals India lifted 170 million people out of poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, with extreme poverty declining sign...26 Apr, 2025, 12.37 AM IST
- How many people living in acute poverty in the world?A UN report reveals that over one billion people live in extreme poverty globally, with children forming more than half that number. The re...17 Oct, 2024, 10.30 AM IST
- India is taking millions of its people out of extreme poverty now — this will help to reduce global economic inequality: Justin Wolfers"The biggest low-income nations have moved closer to becoming middle-income — that itself helps to reduce global income inequality. Regardi...08 Sep, 2023, 12.08 AM IST
- World Bank says goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 won't be metThe COVID-19 pandemic marked a historic turning point after decades of poverty reduction, the report said, with 71 million more people livi...05 Oct, 2022, 09.16 PM IST
- View: Government's strategy of welfarism to ward off absolute poverty and reduce povertyThe National Floor Level Minimum Wage (NFLMW) is the floor price below which no state government can fix minimum wages. NFLMW in 2021 remai...22 Apr, 2022, 11.16 PM IST
- India, no longer a poverty posterboyAs the government dials down pandemic-induced food subsidies, poverty reduction will revert to being driven by growth in incomes in the bot...18 Apr, 2022, 11.22 PM IST
- Extreme poverty in India declined by 12 percentage points between 2011-2019: World BankThe extreme poverty count fell from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 and the decline in rural areas was much higher than in urban areas, esti...18 Apr, 2022, 12.45 AM IST
- Pace of extreme poverty reduction in S Asia faster than rest of the world: World BankBetween 1990 and 2015, the world experienced a 25-percentage point drop in extreme poverty against a 35 percentage-point drop in South Asia19 Sep, 2018, 08.34 PM IST
- China, India played central role in global poverty reduction: UN reportThe 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...07 Jul, 2015, 01.47 PM IST
- India to meet poverty reduction goal by 2015: UN ReportDespite widespread poverty in the country, India is on track to meet UN's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of poverty reduction by 2015, a...05 Jul, 2013, 08.18 PM IST
- 320 mn people in India, China to come out of poverty by'15: UNAs many as 320 million people in India and China are expected to come out of extreme poverty in the next four years.08 Jul, 2011, 07.36 PM IST
- India contributes to large drop in global poverty: UN reportIndia has contributed to a large reduction in global poverty, according to the UN annual report on the Millennium Development Goals.08 Jul, 2011, 11.11 AM IST
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