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.

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 ...

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

India's multidimensional poverty, encompassing health and education access, has decreased from 29% in 2013-14 to 11% in 2022-23, liberating nearly 25 crore people from poverty.

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

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

First China zipped ahead. Now India has. The US is fast becoming a laggard on renewable energy. India’s drive was speeded up ...

The party also challenged the Centre’s poverty benchmarks. It cited the World Bank’s lower-middle-income poverty line of $3.65/day, under which India’s poverty rate stood at 28.1% in 2022. This figure ...

Despite facing financial constraints, Kerala has been able to invest in welfare schemes and targeted programmes.

Does the 60 per cent cap on MGNREGS spending for the first six months of FY 2025-26 overlook the demand-driven nature of the ...

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