Despite India’s claim of historic poverty decline, new data raises doubts. Are vulnerable lives masked by changing metrics? Dig into the real numbers.

Debates on India’s poverty and inequality trends are welcome. We should be careful with global comparisons, though, and keep track of inter-generational mobility as well.

All governments are scared of a negative image.' 'Somehow, this government has a tendency to create a narrative that things ...

India's Gini Index score of 25.5 places it among the world's most equal societies, ahead of China and the US, reflecting shared growth and effective poverty reduction efforts ...

In an extreme form it also means the prevalence of starvation deaths. By these rather grim benchmarks, India’s extreme poverty rate now stands at 5.3 per cent of the population.

The government must focus on improving development outcomes in the districts that have the lowest development indicators.

The benefit of rise in per capita income has not percolated to the masses to the extent it was happening before 2015-16 ...

The data is clear on this, though Indians are caught in a battle of political narratives on the country’s reality.

India is projected to add $1 trillion to its GDP every 12–18 months to 2047. With this momentum, India is targeting a $30 ...

Meanwhile, the Ministry’s release credited several welfare schemes for India’s improvement on poverty indicators. Among them: PM Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar, Direct Benefit Transfer, Ayushman Bharat, PM ...

Kerala’s extreme poverty rate, which stood at 0.71% according to NITI Aayog’s 2021 data, declined to 0.48% by 2024.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India’s inflation rate has come down from double digits before 2014 to around 2% ...