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...

India's rural and urban consumption gap is reducing significantly, thanks to government initiatives like direct benefit transfers and impro...

The extreme poverty count fell from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 and the decline in rural areas was much higher than in urban areas, esti...

Big picture reforms will eradicate poverty, not small tweaks to programmes that botique RCTs provide.

Centre today approved changes in some key rural development programmes on poverty reduction and employment creation by increasing flexibili...

President Pranab Mukherjee today emphasised the importance of high economic growth for poverty reduction.

Sikkim has recorded steepest fall in poverty level in the country on account of increase in per capita consumption.

The proportion of the poor to the total population has fallen from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 21.9% in 2011-12.

Poverty level in the country may have declined significantly between 2009-10 and 2011-12, survey shows.

United Nations has observed that poverty head count ratio for Muslims is highest in the states of Assam, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Guj...

Govt's development strategy has worked well with initial estimates suggesting 2% decline in the incidence of poverty during 2011-12, the te...

As per the methodology adopted by the Tendulkar Committee for estimation of poverty, the spend on health and education is also factored in.

The calorie intake of the poor declined during 1993-2009 and the reductions are a manifestation of lower cereal intakes.

Poverty in India has fallen at twice the rate since 2004-05 , says a study by two professors of Delhi's Jawarharlal Nehru University.

The World Bank has approved $1 billion credit for NRLP, which it said will aim at strengthening the implementation of the newly launched NR...

The World Bank has approved $1 bn credit for National Rural Livelihoods Project which it said is aimed at strengthening the implementation ...

The World Bank has asked policymakers in India to stop neglecting urban poverty and expand the scope of some rural flagship schemes to urba...