According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bangladesh’s economy was the second fastest growing economy in 2016 with a 7.1% growth ...

Poverty alleviation has been high on the Hasina government's development agenda as is evident in all plan documents.

While the country has met targets in areas like poverty reduction, and is close to meeting those for literacy rate, it is unlikely to do so...

"India attaches a high degree of importance to the post-2015 development agenda with poverty eradication as its overarching objective," Aso...

Congress and government leadership have succeeded in persuading DMK to support the food security bill.

India accounts for one-third of the world poor, people living on less than $1.25 (about Rs 65) per day, a World Bank report on poverty has ...

Congress asked Mukherjee to raise income tax slabs, reduce interest rates in Union Budget 2012.

The number of Americans living in poverty has jumped by nearly three million to 49.1 million, or 16 per cent of the total population, accor...

US poverty rate rose to the highest level in almost two decades and household income fell in 2010, underscoring the lingering impact of the...

A day after the Work Bank marked out deficiencies in the country's public distribution system (PDS) for foodgrain, a senior government offi...

The government has ordered a new survey with a view that results from a bad year for the economy are not comparable with past data.

The socio-economic status of the nation’s 1.2 billion citizens is gauged by national sample surveys on consumer expenditure and employment.

The government has extended a health insurance scheme earlier restricted to people living below the poverty line to a wider range of groups...

South Asia is lagging behind the Asia-Pacific region in poverty and hunger reduction, and is in danger of missing these key targets in the ...

Revised formula reveals even worse levels of poverty in America.

Things really are bad all over America and they had gone bad even before the housing and finance industries crashed and sent the economy in...

The solution for eradicating poverty in the country lies in scaling up the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate to upto 15 per cent, ac...