At an aggregate level, poverty rates in India are now estimated to be between 4 per cent and 4.5 per cent, with almost negligible instances of extreme poverty. One of the critical drivers behind ...

A research study by State Bank of India (SBI) highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has reduced to minimal with poverty rates in the country falling below 5 percent in 2024.

India is in a period of unprecedented opportunity, challenge and ambition in its development. The country’s extreme poverty rate has fallen from 46 percent to 21 percent in the two decades up to 2011, ...

The sharp fall in India’s headline consumer price inflation in January vindicates last week’s rate cut by the Reserve Bank of ...

MUMBAI, Feb 21 (Reuters) - India's inflation is seen aligning with the target of 4%, which opens up space for monetary policy to address concerns on the growth front, members of the rate-setting ...

Having completed almost a decade of implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) in the country, Indian governments ... the multi-dimensional poverty scenario that ...

The repo rate is key to keeping inflation under control because it affects the cost of borrowing and, in turn, the amount of money in Indian economy. RBI adjusts the repo rate to manage ...

Unlike many developed nations, India's elderly population overlaps with high poverty rates, low health access and significant gender disparity." She added: "India must chart its own path ...

Is poverty being underestimated in India? Here we discuss the question. Guests: P.C. Mohanan, former member of the National Statistical Commission; N.R. Bhanumurthy, Director of the Madras School ...