In a post on X, Shamika Ravi stated, "Poverty Rates across Hindu and Muslim populations of India have fallen significantly in the last 12 years ... the poverty rate in Muslims dropped from ...

Several renowned economists and leaders have provided insights into the root causes of the high poverty rate in India. Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate economist, has highlighted the importance of ...

The last official poverty data was released in July 2013 which was estimated based on the Tendulkar line for 2011-12. According to this, 21.9 per cent of the population in India lived below the ...

Six years into its demographic-dividend period, India is yet to see the benefits. History shows unlocking value from ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The number of people living below the poverty line in India decreased by 415 million between 2005-06 and 2019-21, according to a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Monday jointly by ...

In order to reduce the outgo on guarantee schemes, the State government is deliberately not issuing fresh Below Poverty Line ...

Nothing about this effort was small, and Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda said that there were 200 individual insurance ...

Assets generate income streams or save future payments, thereby increasing purchasing power. Such empowerment aids ...

The economy shows a strong 6.5% real GDP growth rate, while inflation remains stable at 4.1%. Retail inflation eased to 3.61% in February. Despite rising GDP per capita, India's government debt stands ...

Data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero show 2.73 million households, around 11% of families, were in fuel poverty last year, a reduction on the previous year. The fuel poverty ...

Not even America’s closest trading partners were spared by a policy broadside that spooked investors and left policymakers ...