Urban Indian professionals face a new financial risk. High salaries no longer guarantee peace of mind. Rising lifestyle expectations trap m...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has completed its sale of Microsoft shares. This marks the end of a significant financial tie to ...

Imagine a future where millions of Indian families break free from the grasp of tobacco, climbing up the economic ladder. The most disadvan...

India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd plans to raise up to USD 1 billion. This will be done through the MIGA guarantee fund in the curre...

India has made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty. World Bank data shows nearly 270 million people moved out of extreme povert...

India 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...

A World Bank report reveals India lifted 170 million people out of poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, with extreme poverty declining sign...

As per the document, Indian witnessed a decline in inequality of consumption in the decade before the LPG reforms of 1991 due to regulatory...

"The biggest low-income nations have moved closer to becoming middle-income — that itself helps to reduce global income inequality. Regardi...

India witnessed an achievement in poverty reduction as 415 million people moved out of poverty within 15 years, from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021...

Areas where workers faced foreign competition tended to have greater reduction in poverty rates.

Inequality is complex as well as multi-dimensional and in developing countries like India, poverty reduction should take precedence over in...

The economist said it was "ironical" that during the peak period of the country's development, the corresponding indexes for poverty reduct...

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

The reduction in poverty will be slower if the economic growth is not brought back on high growth track, said Planning Commission Deputy Ch...

To achieve a reduction in the number of deprived households, we need a minimum of 6% growth in the economy. Thus, high growth is equally im...

The rapid economic expansion over that past two decades has not resulted in matching reduction in poverty