A research study by State Bank of India (SBI) highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has reduced to minimal with poverty rates in the country falling below 5 percent in 2024.

A recent study has found that 26.4% of India’s population remains below the poverty line, a figure that challenges the Union government’s claim that poverty has ...

“Suppose you have a growth rate of 9%. The point is not ... “Even low income households in India, part of the reason they go into poverty is because...the public system is there but they ...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE 2025? Here are questions from GS paper 2 for this week with essential points as the fodder for your answers. Do not miss points to ponder and answer in the comment box ...

India's economic liberalization in the early 1990s was followed by historically high rates of growth. But did this growth help or hurt the poor? Were their numbers reduced or did economic growth ...

India is in a period of unprecedented opportunity, challenge and ambition in its development. The country’s extreme poverty rate has fallen from 46 percent to 21 percent in the two decades up to 2011, ...

Rural poverty in India has notably dropped to 4.86% in 2023-24, down from 25.7% in 2011-12, driven by government support. Urban poverty also declined to 4.09%. Increased consumption and ...

At an aggregate level, he assessed that poverty rates in India could now be in the range of 4 per cent-4.5 per cent with almost minimal existence of extreme poverty. The ERD economists observed ...

Peter Obi: "While the poverty rate in India is about 16 per cent, that of Nigeria is about 63 per cent... classified as multi-dimensionally poor." Obi has taken data from two different sources ...

Almost half of the 1.4 billion people in India live below the median poverty line of $3.65 a day, per the World Bank, and activists say the ostentatious displays of wealth are an affront to the ...