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 ...

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 ...