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FASTEST POVERTY DECLINE
India records one of the fastest poverty declines in the world, poverty down from 27.1% to 2.6%: World BankIndia has seen a significant decline in poverty, with the rate dropping from 27.1 percent to 2.6 percent. Approximately 496 million people ...- From hunger to obesity: Developing world faces growing threat to child healthChildhood obesity is rapidly increasing in developing nations, creating a significant health challenge. This epidemic is now outpacing unde...
- India is no longer an abjectly poor nation. But it faces an equally compelling challenge: inequalityThere is an important subtext, though. This emerging cohort of the middle class is not homogenous. Measured in terms of household incomes, ...
- 46.87 lakh in Assam escaped multi-dimensional poverty in 5 yrs: Niti Aayog reportAssam has registered a significant decline of 13.30 percentage points in the number of multi-dimensional poverty, from 32.65 per cent in 20...
- To not be poor is glorious, rewardingNITI Aayog has corroborated earlier findings by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that 135 million people were lifted out of ...
- Proportion of poor dips to 14.9%, 135 mn pulled out of povertyAbout 135 million Indians have moved out of multidimensional poverty in the past five years, according to India's NITI Aayog. The proportio...
- 13.5 cr people moved out of multidimensional poverty in India in 5 years: Niti reportIndia is on the path of achieving the SDG Target 1.2 (of reducing multidimensional poverty by at least half) much ahead of the stipulated t...
- 135 million Indians move out of multidimensional poverty in five years: NITI Aayog reportIndia has significantly reduced multidimensional poverty in the past five years, according to the National Multidimensional Poverty Index, ...
- 13.5 crore Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty in five years, says Niti Aayog reportIndia witnessed a significant reduction of multidimensional poverty with 13.5 crore people moving out of it between 2015-16 and 2019-21, ac...
- 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...
- Arun Jaitley hits back at naysayers, says India fastest growing major economyJaitley said that India's GDP has not declined by 2 per cent on account of demonetisation and GST implementation, nor will it India live in...
- Growth in Gujarat hasn’t been confined to 1% of populationThe proportion of the population living below the poverty line in Gujarat fell from 32.5% in 2004-05 to 17% in 2011-2012.
- NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya says GDP to touch $8 trillion before 2030World Bank & IMF as well as analysts have predicted that the country would become third largest economy after China & the US with a GDP of ...
- Arun Jaitley is right: Pro-business policies are the way to go for poverty eradicationThe point is to deploy political imagination in ways that would simultaneously be pro-business and pro-poor.
- Odisha, Bihar show biggest drop in percentage of poorIn Bihar, which logged the fastest growth rate during the 11th five-year plan, the share of BPL in total population was estimated at 33.7% ...
- Odisha, Bihar show biggest drop in percentage of poorAlthough things seem to looking up in the poor states, they still remain home to the maximum number of poor people in the country.
- Raising farm productivity and boosting manufacturing to create more jobs will spur growthNotwithstanding the recent economic slowdown, India has been among the world's fastest-growing countries over the last two decades.
- 5 crore people moved out of poverty: GovernmentThe 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...
- 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.
- Gap between rich and poor widening: ADBThe disparity between haves and have nots has risen considerably in the decade ending 2004, though the number of people living below povert...
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