Poverty in India is a complex and multifaceted issue influenced by a combination of historical, economic, social, and political factors. Several renowned economists and leaders have provided ...

Mumbai: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court recently granted bail to a man accused of impregnating his 14-year-old ...

There is an urgent need to have an official estimate of the poverty line and bring in policy changes to impact the lives of ...

A total of 234 million persons are living below the poverty line in India, the highest in the world, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford ...

The World Bank ’s latest Policy Research Working Paper mentioned that the extreme poverty count fell nearly 12% points to 10.2% in 2019. The decline in the rural areas was much higher than in ...

This book analyses poverty in India as being intimately connected with the advent of caste, untouchability, colonialism, indentured servitude and slavery, and their relation to modern practices. It ...

Earlier, the World Bank had said that extreme poverty in India had declined by 38 million in 2021 to 167.49 million after growing in the preceding two years. The ‘Poverty, Prosperity and Planet ...

Real progress has been made in reducing poverty in recent years, particularly in India and China. However, there is still much uncertainty about the numbers. Using the same data, two reports released ...

At Second P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture, Patnaik spoke about reliable sources of nutritional data being ‘undermined’, British ...

Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia Topalova. "Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-067, April 2014. (Revised August 2014.) ...

With the release of new data from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), there is an opportunity to recalibrate ...