Is India’s poverty rate 5% or 24%? A debate over poverty lines, data transparency, and Parliament’s questions reveals how millions may be missing from policy.

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 has seen a remarkable drop in extreme poverty over the past decade, with the rate falling sharply from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 to just 5.3 per cent in recent years. This improvement comes even ...

A consistent finding across classifications is that extreme poverty has declined to low, single-digit levels. The principal exception is Scheduled Tribes (STs), whose poverty rate, though sharply ...

Extreme poverty in developing countries fell 25% since 1990 and may be further halved so long as economic growth rates in those countries maintain their pace, the World Bank said in an annual report ...

Thiruvananthapuram Cabinet approves guidelines for post-extreme poverty eradication project, aiming for sustainable interventions and support.

The World Bank says that India has made radical strides in eliminating extreme poverty. The reality on the ground is more complicated.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On Nov. 1, the southern Indian state of Kerala will be officially declared the first among the nation’s 28 states to be “free of extreme poverty.” This is a remarkable achievement, experts say, as the ...

Steeped in ancient customs and traditions, India has had a complex legacy of social evils – unyielding, inhuman and oppressive – often justified by ...