India has made significant progress in poverty reduction, lifting 171 million people out of extreme poverty, with rates dropping from 16.2% in 2011 to 2.3% in 2022–23.

Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Skip to main content.

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP .9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include ...

How you die points out to how you lived. At 101 years, V S Achuthanandan fought death for 28 days. If there is one word that ...

A study released earlier this year comes to the extraordinary conclusion that India, the world’s most populous nation, has virtually eliminated extreme poverty, with rates below 1%. In 1977, the ...

According to the World Bank's Spring 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief, India has lifted 171 million out of extreme poverty. It also made strong gains in poverty reduction at the lower-middle-income ...

Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings.

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 ...

Poverty is a policy choice – not a personal failure. The author of “Hillbilly Elegy” says otherwise. This is not a commentary on the candidacy of author J.D. Vance, but on that flawed book ...