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 ...

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 paper highlights issues with the methodology adopted by the GoI, which estimates poverty at just 5% based on "positive ...

“Suppose you have a growth rate of 9%. The point is not ... “Even low income households in India, part of the reason they go into poverty is because...the public system is there but they ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted in Parliament on Tuesday that his government has succeeded in lifting 25 crore ...

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 ...

Almost half of the 1.4 billion people in India live below the median poverty line of $3.65 a day, per the World Bank, and activists say the ostentatious displays of wealth are an affront to the ...

India has had several committees since independence that were tasked to gather poverty estimates. TheTendulkar committee (2009) had estimated India’s poverty ratio at 21.9% (25.7% rural; 13.7% ...

A slew of recent research papers that offer opposing viewpoints has reignited the old debate --- has poverty in India diminished or increased? Moneycontrol examines the issue. Advisory Alert ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...