Statistical debates around poverty estimates in India underline the importance of survey data. How does the absence of ...

At the time of Mr Dube’s visit in 1995 almost half of India’s population still lived below the international poverty line, ...

NEW DELHI: Poverty rates in India fell below 5% and the existence of extreme ... resulting in a shift in the poverty line.

Considering the poverty line set at $3.65 ... According to this SBI report, the poverty rate in India fell below 5 percent, nearly eradicating extreme poverty. It estimates that the current ...

The state government has increased the income criteria for the selection of below poverty line (BPL) families from Rs 36,000 ...

The court questioned whether the subsidised ration system, intended to provide food security to the poor, was being used by ...

The Supreme Court has highlighted discrepancies in the distribution of subsidies, questioning how states report high per ...

with 51.83 lakh families now below the poverty line. Despite the state government's various upliftment schemes, the data suggests that over two crore people in Haryana live in poverty, contrasting ...

In 2013, the year for which the most comprehensive data on global poverty is available, 767 million people, or 10.7 percent of the population, were estimated to be living below the international ...

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 ...