India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3% over a decade from 27.1% in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation ...

Growth is not the sole objective of economic policy. It is necessary to ensure that the benefits of growth accrue to all sections. Eradication of poverty is thus an important objective. The objective ...

There is no shortage of government and foundation programs to reduce poverty. Despite the progress made over the last 50 years, poverty persists. Look at India’s growth in the last two decades fueled ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the strongest ...

Using unit-level Household Consumption Expenditure Survey data for 2011–12, 2022–23, and 2023–24, this paper reassesses poverty and inequality in India at the Tendulkar poverty line and at higher ...

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...

India is on its way to becoming the third-largest economy in the world, yet unemployment among young people with graduate degrees is at an all-time high. India’s glass is half-full – and half-empty.

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