India, Nov. 14 -- Back in the 1980s when I was a post-graduate student pursuing economics at the Gokhale Institute in Pune, we were perhaps the last of the batch to listen to guest lectures by the ...

NEW DELHI: Despite India making great strides in the reduction of poverty, about 206 million children in the country lack access to one of the six basic services like education, health, housing, ...

Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings.

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

An Indian schoolgirl who escaped destitution to become a poster-child at Wimbledon after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary is back in poverty and lives in a house with no door. Pinki Sonkar, ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

On Oct 17, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), released their annual Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (GMPI) report: ...

In its latest assessment of the global economy, the World Bank warned that turbulence from rising inflation and the threat of new covid-19 variants have left poor countries vulnerable to a “hard ...

Poverty estimates across social, religious, and economic groups using the Tendulkar modified mixed reference period poverty line for 2011–12, 2022–23, and 2023–24 show a substantial and broad-based ...

'Poverty eradication is a continuous process. There is no full stop to it.' Kindly note the image has only been published for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy Adhwaith ...