NEW DELHI: India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty in the decade spanning from 2011-12 to 2022-23, according to the World Bank's latest "Poverty & Equity Brief." The ...

Growth is not the sole objective of economic policy. It is necessary to ensure that the benefits of growth accrue to all sections. Eradication of poverty is thus an important objective. The objective ...

Even as poverty declines, widening income inequality is making India’s economic growth story increasingly uneven ...

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 ...

Indian Prime Minister Modi warns that wars and energy shocks risk undoing poverty gains, urging austerity and prudent ...

A total of 24.82 crore individuals in India escaped multidimensional poverty over the last nine years, with the largest decline reported in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, a report released ...

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 ...

India has achieved a significant milestone in its fight against extreme poverty, with the latest World Bank data showing a dramatic decline in the extreme poverty rate from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 to ...

VESTAL, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Those walking along the Vestal Rail Trail on Saturday may have come across Inches for India. The new non-profit was started by two sisters looking to give back to their family’s ...

Louis CK talked about his experience after visiting India and seeing how people like in small blocks which are still very cheap when compared to New York.