Poverty in India is a complex and multifaceted issue influenced by a combination of historical, economic, social, and political factors. Several renowned economists and leaders have provided ...

Mr Dube lamented India’s lack of progress: the number of poor people in the mid-1990s exceeded India’s entire population when it escaped British rule five decades before. How has India done in ...

Like other middle-class Indians, I grew up knowing little about poor people's lives. We moved in separate worlds, which, in my mind, only grew further apart as India lurched ahead as a global ...

Governments that have adopted pro-poor policies have been increasingly successful in India in recent years. Parties referred to as “populist” have competed to provide basic amenities to the poorer ...

For women coming from lower economic strata in India, a diagnosis can reveal faultlines ... Her new “family”—the people whose house she worked in—supported her in educating and taking ...

with more than 770 million people living in highly dangerous conditions at least two weeks a year. Because of its growing wealth and increasingly prosperous middle class, India will have the ...

says a new World Bank report called Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor. East Asia and the Pacific is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing region, with an average annual urbanization rate of 3 ...

The debate on inequality and redistribution of wealth, ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, has focused on whether India needs more taxes to boost its spending on uplifting the poor. What has ...

India's first medical clinic for transgender people has shut operations in three ... programmes all around the world, especially in poor and developing countries. In India, the shutting down ...

New Delhi: After India’s 1-3 loss against Australia in the ... mainly Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, after a series of poor outings for the duo. Head coach Gautam Gambhir and his support staff's ...

Transgender people in India are often unable ... programmes all around the world, especially in poor and developing countries. In India, the shutting down of the Mitr Clinics has impacted the ...