Reducing inequality essential to end extreme poverty by 2030: World Bank

A new report by the World Bank finds that extreme poverty is falling globally

India needs the ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan back

Anti-poverty programmes must be universal, not just on a below or above poverty line matrix

What Sierra Leone teaches us on poverty measurement

The latest Global Multidimensional Poverty Index says this least developed country reduced overall poverty and deprivations fastest in the world …

COVID-19 impact: World will have 150 million ‘new extreme poor people’ in 2021

This is nearly twice the number of ‘new extreme poor’ estimated by the World Bank in April 2020

How India remains poor: As many as 22 states have become poorer

Latest NITI Aayog counts no state as ‘achiever’; overall performance of most ‘performing’, ‘laggard’ states …

New poverty line: Rs 32 for rural India, Rs 47 for urban India

The latest report by Rangarajan committee has added almost 100 million more people to the list of poor

Africa’s poverty dip, a blip?

Extreme poverty decreased due to low food price, soon to be reversed due to high inflation  

Poverty is ecological: We must accept income poverty is the wrong yardstick

Today, October 17, 2020, we observe the 27th anniversary of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at a time when the COVID-19 …

No toilet, no food; is this how India will become ODF?

Kiran Bedi's order, suspending free rice distribution scheme for Puducherry's poorest families from end of May unless they produce a certificate …

Two per cent of world population: that’s the number of poor in just five states of India

42 per cent of India’s population lives in these states and nearly one in every 4 person is poor

India stopped counting poor; now the world in bind on how to achieve zero poverty by 2030

World Bank’s latest poverty report highlights how absence of poverty data in India — junked by the government last year — …

Planning Commission to SC: Rs 26 a person a day the 'adequate' poverty line

This has been arrived at by applying the price level in June 2011

Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s

Poverty is likely to increase dramatically in middle-income developing countries in Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines

Chitapur: A village that counts its GDP in tamarind trees

Staple food grain being supplied cheaper, forest produce become the most important economy in forest-dwelling villages, sidelining agriculture

The world will miss the SDG target 1, a poverty-free world

1.6 people should escape poverty every second but currently just 1.1 are doing so. Worryingly, by 2020, the rate of poverty reduction would …

How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’

Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible

Use technology to make PDS transparent, efficient: Wadhwa committee

Supreme Court-appointed panel recommends phasing out private dealers from supply chain and doing away with above poverty line list

Bhukh chala gaya, dukh nahi: The new hunger problem stalking India’s poorest region

Government schemes have brought food to people in Koraput, Kalahandi and Bastar; but they still do not have sustainable livelihoods

Less than a third BPL senior citizens benefit from old age pension scheme: Health ministry survey

Awareness and enrolment for widow pension and Annapurna schemes were even lower, the study said

How these five states in India are making it difficult to meet global SDG commitments

NITI Aayog CEO got it right, almost. Just five states are increasing the global challenge of meeting sustainable development goals

Poverty line delinked from food and other entitlements given to the poor

Government to wait for results of socio-economic caste census to decide parameters on who should be covered under social welfare programmes

Weather advisories drive farmers’ income up to 50%

Every rupee spent on weather forecasting fetches 50-fold economic gains to below poverty line farming families  

How India remains poor: ‘It will take 7 generations for India’s poor to reach mean income’

World Economic Forum’s latest report says social inequality negates gains from high economic growth

Quarter-billion people face extreme poverty in 2022 as the rich get richer: Oxfam

Inflation driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine a major factors behind financial crisis