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MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY ALLEVIATION
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...- India lifted 250 million people out of multidimensional poverty: Mansukh MandaviyaAddressing the plenary session of Second World Summit for Social Development in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday, labour and employment minister Ma...
- With inflation easing, GST cuts and rising asset values, India's witnessing a quiet wealth revolutionThe landscape of household finances is transforming as inflation drops to a stunning 99-month low, instigating a surge in consumer spending...
- Youth from east want to join growth storyThe recently-released household consumption expenditure survey points to a relative narrowing of this divide, given the historic decline in...
- Next generation reforms to avoid middle-income trap: Suman BeryIn an interview, NITI Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery discusses the impact of staying on the "fiscal glide path" on India's credit ratings a...
- Trickling down, finally: India is dramatically increasing stakeholders, rewriting all rules of engagementThere is another way of looking at this development: there are more people inside the economy looking out rather than the other way around....
- World to miss SDG goals on poverty and better-quality life: UNU-WIDER studyA paper by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) suggests that the decline in povert...
- 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, ...
- Aspirational districts fare better in poverty reductionThe average decline in number of multidimensionally poor was higher for aspirational districts between 2015-16 and 2019-21. However, they s...
- Bipartisan resolution introduced in US Senate recognising Arunachal Pradesh as integral part of IndiaThe resolution condemns additional Chinese provocations, including China's use of military force to change the status quo along the Line of...
- UNDP's latest report on poverty highlights India's great leap upwardFrom the turn of the millennium, India has been targeting various deprivations. Eight years ago, public policy was tweaked to prioritise an...
- Poverty in numbers: What does the data tell us?As per the World Inequality Report, the top 10% and the top 1% in India still control 57% and 22% of the national wealth, while the bottom ...
- Blame game begins as Jharkhand figures among poorest states in Niti Aayog reportIn response, the ruling JMM sought to know if the saffron camp, during its tenure, was "asleep". Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have em...
- India brings its experience of success in poverty alleviation to new global alliance: UNGA prezSuccess in India relating to poverty eradication is success for the world because it addresses a huge population and India can bring to the...
- India joins 'Alliance for Poverty Eradication' at UN as founding memberHe will also galvanise Member States, the international community and other stakeholders to support actions geared towards poverty eradicat...
- Budget 2016: How FM Arun Jaitley is attempting to raise rural incomes to revive demand and growthAfter two years of trying to drive investment in manufacturing and services, the government returned to tend to rural India, the battered c...
- I am losing my heart to Uttar Pradesh: Ratan TataTata said the often "misunderstood and underplayed" UP is a state that will "take its place in the country and lead the way, in many ways".
- Experts pitch for fossil fuels to drive growth in IndiaThe seminar saw them focusing on the three major issues of accessibility, availability and affordability of sustainable energy.
- Parliamentary Committee questions move to introduce Food BillThe Parliamentary Standing Committee on finance has questioned the government's move to introduce a right to food bill when it did not have...
- 'To reduce poverty, India has to put up with increasing inequality for a while'Angus S. Deaton is among the world’s foremost authorities on poverty and health economic and has done extensive research on poverty and pub...
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