An Indian schoolgirl who escaped destitution to become a poster-child at Wimbledon after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary is back in poverty and lives in a house with no door. Pinki Sonkar, ...

Has poverty been nearly eradicated in India? Yes, if one goes by the findings of a World Bank brief on poverty and equity released in April. As per the report, the proportion of people in India living ...

India's multidimensional poverty has plummeted dramatically over the past two decades, dropping from 55.3% in FY05-06 to just 11.28% in FY22-23, according to the latest Economic Survey 2024-25. This ...

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

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...

There is no shortage of government and foundation programs to reduce poverty. Despite the progress made over the last 50 years, poverty persists. Look at India’s growth in the last two decades fueled ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the strongest ...

In 1997, Palaniappan Chidambaram wrote a budget of which middle-class Indians still wistfully dream. It slashed income and corporate taxes, encouraged foreign investment, and drove up the stock market ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new exhibition of art from India at Charles Saatchi's London gallery tackles issues including poverty, the environment, war, religion and the region of Kashmir disputed by ...

Poverty and tourism have a unique relationship; poverty can serve as a form of tourism or poverty can create barriers that hinder the development of the tourism sector. There is no better example of ...