As the poverty rates in the country declined below 5 percent in 2024, a research study by State Bank of India also highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has been reduced to minimal.......
The United Kingdom extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10 per cent -- enough money to......
A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday, highlighting the remarkable achievement by the......
The number of poor people in India fell by about 415 million between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a ”historic change” and a demonstration that the Sustainable Development Goal target of......
China and India, the most populous nations, lifted more from slum conditions than any other countries, says a United Nations report which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor. In the last 10......
Aiming at sensitising policy makers and planners towards the dynamics of poverty in cities, governmentreleased on Tuesday a reportoutlining the nature and extent of urban poverty in the country.......
Although the pace of economic growth in most nations that are World Bank's borrowers has been robust during the last five years, the multilateral financial body's programmes aimed at reducing......
Former member of the Planning Commission, Bhalchandra Mungekar has told Business Standard that while poverty being reduced between 2004-05 and 2011-12 was a fact, the minimum estimates used......
Carved out of southern Bihar as a new stateon November 15, 2000, Jharkhand has been plagued by adverse conditions -- low average income, high incidence of poverty and little social development......
Poverty levels in the country have fallen from 26.1 per cent in 1999-2000 to 21.8 per cent in 2004-05, based on the mixed recall period consumption method. Those for rural areas fell from 27.1 to......