The recently-released household consumption expenditure survey points to a relative narrowing of this divide, given the historic decline in...

In an interview, NITI Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery discusses the impact of staying on the "fiscal glide path" on India's credit ratings a...

There is another way of looking at this development: there are more people inside the economy looking out rather than the other way around....

A paper by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) suggests that the decline in povert...

There is an important subtext, though. This emerging cohort of the middle class is not homogenous. Measured in terms of household incomes, ...

The average decline in number of multidimensionally poor was higher for aspirational districts between 2015-16 and 2019-21. However, they s...

The resolution condemns additional Chinese provocations, including China's use of military force to change the status quo along the Line of...

From the turn of the millennium, India has been targeting various deprivations. Eight years ago, public policy was tweaked to prioritise an...

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 ...

In response, the ruling JMM sought to know if the saffron camp, during its tenure, was "asleep". Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have em...

Success in India relating to poverty eradication is success for the world because it addresses a huge population and India can bring to the...

He will also galvanise Member States, the international community and other stakeholders to support actions geared towards poverty eradicat...

After two years of trying to drive investment in manufacturing and services, the government returned to tend to rural India, the battered c...

Tata 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".

The seminar saw them focusing on the three major issues of accessibility, availability and affordability of sustainable energy.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on finance has questioned the government's move to introduce a right to food bill when it did not have...

Angus S. Deaton is among the world’s foremost authorities on poverty and health economic and has done extensive research on poverty and pub...