India's extreme poverty rate decreased to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12. Approximately 269 million individuals were lifted out of extreme poverty in 11 years. Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra ...

India has managed to reduce its 'extreme poverty rate' from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, data by the World Bank said, indicating that India's economic trajectory has seen a transformative ...

India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to $3 per day.

India's extreme poverty rate has declined from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, according to World Bank data. In contrast, nearly 45% of Pakistan's population lives in poverty, with 16.5% ...

Chennai: Over the past decade India has lifted 171 million people from extreme poverty. Those living on less than $2.15 per day fell from 16.2 percent in 2011- 12 to 2.3 percent in 2022-23 ...

Last month, the World Bank released yet another set of poverty estimates for India and bang, bang. The hammer dropped. Extreme poverty is nearly dead. Just some 3.3 crore Indians are extremely ...

A World Bank study reveals Pakistan's General Sales Tax exacerbates poverty by disproportionately burdening low-income families. Education spending, particularly at primary levels, also ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have a compelling new data point to add to the nature vs. nurture debate about ...

The new poverty numbers released by the World Bank have placed it at least one step ahead of the Government of India (GOI). The GOI remains stuck to official poverty numbers made more than a decade ...

but also updates to the underlying national poverty lines. Third, updates to the underlying household survey data, in particular new data for India. The overall impact is a combination of these ...

Bharti Singh, a popular comedian, speaks about seeing and experiencing terrible poverty firsthand. In a digital media podcast presented by actress Neena Gupta, Bharti Singh discussed how she and ...