NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - 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. Rural areas saw ...

According to the latest MPI data, India's rate of multidimensional poverty has fallen from 29% in 2013 to 11.3% in 2022. Over 200 million people have moved out of deprivation during this period.

A new World Bank report projects that India’s extreme poverty has come down drastically in the last ten years, from 27.12% to 5.25% in 2023. SBI’s report indicates a further reduction.

According to its latest Poverty and Equity Brief, extreme poverty in India – defined as living on less than $2.15 per day (in 2017 PPP terms) – dropped from 16.2 percent to a mere 2.3 percent.

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

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 ...

Russia's war in Ukraine has brought the world to a standstill when urgent action is needed to address growing global poverty, India's G20 summit negotiator Amitabh Kant said on Wednesday.

KOMALI YENNETI, YEHUA DENNIS WEI, WEN CHEN, THE URBANIZATION OF POVERTY IN INDIA: SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISPARITIES IN CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, Geographical Review, Vol. 107, No. 2, Special Issue: ...

India’s economy has been growing much faster than its population for a generation, and the proportion of Indians living in extreme poverty has plummeted. Yet most Indians remain poor by global ...

Using state-level data for 1970-93, a simultaneous equations model was developed to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on rural poverty and ...

In a significant endeavor to tackle poverty-related issues, sixty graduate students at Kristu Jayanti College, a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) in India that also ...