Speaking at a virtual discussion on 'Financing For Development' organised by the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), he...

We have to adapt the principle of universal basic income, says the former Finance Minister.

The government will soon revise the contentious poverty line upward from Rs 27.20 in rural areas and Rs 33.40 in urban areas after it recei...

The “incremental” food subsidy over and above the existing subsidy is estimated at Rs 23,951 crore, or 0.2 per cent of GDP in 2013-14.

Aiming to extend the benefit of pension schemes provided to elderly, widows and disabled, the government is planning to include more 60 lak...

Most of the Planning Commission has distanced itself from the review even as there has not been any fervent opposition to setting up the re...

The governor of Alabama has signed a watered down version of a tough immigration law as he signaled the need for further revisions.

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

In the late 1970s and 1980s, economists Yoginder Alagh & DT Lakdawala defined the poverty line in terms of the spending on food required.

A political storm unleashed in Parliament on Tues, with the Opposition charging the govt with hiding dire poverty by using new poverty esti...

On education, the plan panel feels those spending 99 paisa a day or Rs 29.60 a month in cities are doing well enough not to need any help.

Those spending in excess of Rs 32 a day in urban areas or Rs 26 a day in villages will no longer be eligible to draw benefits of government...

Some estimates place the number of poor at 40% of the population. ET looks at how poverty numbers are generated:

Angus Deaton, the Princeton economist said that the world became poorer as a result of a combination of India's economic growth and its low...

Revised formula reveals even worse levels of poverty in America.

A government committee is close to revising the poverty line upwards, bringing more people into the safety net of government support.

China’s economy is 40% smaller than most recent estimates, a US economist said on Wednesday, citing data from the Asian Development Bank an...