A Progress Review 2023', Singh said that between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the poverty rate reduced from 24.85 per cent to 14.96 ...

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

“At an aggregate level, we believe poverty rates in India could now be in the range of 4-4.5 per cent with almost minimal existence of extreme poverty,” it said.

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 ...

The above estimates are based on 2017 purchasing power parity terms and if you consider 2021 PPPs, we'll get a revised extreme poverty line of $3.00 (constituting a 15% higher threshold than $2.15 ...

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

In a flurry of posts on Truth Social, Donald Trump imposed 25% tariffs and made sweeping claims about India’s trade barriers, ...

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

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

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