The poverty line is now set at INR 1,632 for rural areas and INR 1,944 for urban areas, significantly higher than the INR 816 (rural) and INR 1,000 (urban) benchmarks established in 2011-12.

China, for instance, has witnessed sustained high economic growth in the past 40 years, and has pulled 800 million people out ...

The report also highlighted significant improvements in rural and urban poverty levels over the years, supported by data from the government’s Consumption Expenditure Survey. Recently Prime Minister ...

N.R. Narayana Murthy emphasizes entrepreneurship as key to reducing poverty, urging government to support job creation ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for transforming his impoverished background into a drive ...

Real progress has been made in reducing poverty in recent years, particularly in India and China. However, there is still much uncertainty about the numbers. Using the same data, two reports released ...

The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the landscape of poverty in the aftermath of an extraordinary series of shocks to the global economy. Global progress in reducing extreme ...

Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia Topalova. "Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-067, April 2014. (Revised August 2014.) ...

India’s poverty rate has fallen below 5%, with extreme poverty nearly eradicated, according to a research study by the State Bank of India (SBI). The report estimates that national poverty rates are ...

Itanagar: Arunachal governor Lt Gen (retd) KT Parnaik has said the state has made remarkable progress in reducing multidimensional poverty, reports Joken Ete. Addressing the 72ndNEC plenary in ...

From assessments of poverty to measures of happiness, here’s how India ranked. According to the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024, approximately 1.1 billion people out of a total of 6.3 ...

The UK and Scottish governments are failing to use their powers to reduce poverty, according to a report from a leading charity. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said a lack of government ...