Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has accused the Modi government of weakening rural employment after MGNREGA was replaced by the VB-G RAM G Ac...

A State Bank of India report estimates India's poverty rate to decline to 4.6% in 2024, a significant drop from the World Bank's 5.3% estim...

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

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

Rural poverty in India declined to under 5% in 2023-24, surpassing urban areas, thanks to higher consumption growth among the bottom 0-5% d...

"There is practically a consensus among academics and policymakers on the robustness and representativeness of the NSS survey methodology, ...

The decline in inequality and the much modest increase in poverty during the pandemic as observed in various studies is not a finding exclu...

The Survey said that unlike in advanced economies, in India, economic growth and inequality converge in terms of their effects on socio-eco...

A major exercise has started to help estimate poverty levels, years after the poverty line idea was dumped.

Economists said rapid economic growth and the use of technology for social sector programmes have helped make a significant dent in extreme...

The programme, which was launched by Indira Gandhi in 1975, rates states on their performance under different targets for below poverty lin...

The National Sample Survey Organisation will carry out a nationwide education and health survey starting from January next year.

India's poverty ratio is likely to be 26.7 per cent by 2015 while child mortality ratio is seen at 52 per thousand live births.

Here is a new set of official statistics that can escalate the politically contentious debate on what constitutes the poverty line.

The Planning Commission is likely to constitute an expert group to re-evaluate its claim that poverty has declined in India.

The Commission's estimates faced criticism in Parliament for its description of poor and resultant fall in people below the poverty line.

Neeraj Kaushal: India has not seen the kind of declines in poverty as witnessed in most of east Asia during the 1980s and much of the 1990s.