Earning Rs 80,000 a month could place an Indian among the country's top 10%. The threshold highlights low living standards despite India's rapid reduction in extreme poverty.

India's worker-population ratio, which measures the share of people who are employed, increased from 46.8 per cent in 2017-18 ...

Poverty can be overcome with on-the-ground strategies enabling millions of people around the world to move out of "multidimensional poverty," according to research published today by the United ...

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 ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

A glaring and varied picture of economic inequality in India is presented by the data on poverty levels in the various Indian states. The problem of poverty has long plagued India, and some areas are ...

New Delhi: 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 USD 3 per day.

UNDP's 2026 poverty index puts Pakistan's poverty incidence at 38.3%, against 16.4% in India and 14.9% in Bangladesh; 21.5% ...

New Delhi: India has almost eradicated extreme poverty and brought down consumption inequality to its lowest levels in 40 years through state-provided food handouts, according to a new working paper ...

For the longest time, India had a lock on a dubious global distinction: it was home to the world’s largest pool of extremely poor people. No more. Earlier this year, Brookings Institution scholar Homi ...