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 ...

“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.

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

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.

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 ...

India has plenty of scope to grow and develop, but not much room to reduce poverty below 1%. Messrs Bhalla and Bhasin therefore recommend a new poverty line set high enough to capture the bottom ...

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 ...

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

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

By contrast, the labour-force participation rate (LFPR) among Indian men was 75.8%. But the rate has picked up healthily every year since, rising to 41.7% in the latest survey released in September.