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

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

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

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

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

क्या है एक राष्ट्र, एक राशन कार्ड योजना

केंद्र सरकार की इस महत्वाकांक्षी योजना पर दस सवाल…

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

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

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

A plate half full

The National Food Security Bill may not do much but what it does is essential

Socio Economic and Caste Census could leave rightful claimants out of BPL list

Activists point out several drawbacks in the inclusion and deprivation criteria

Food security bill forgoes nutrition security

The bill will ensure food for millions of hungry Indians. But has the government identified them?

भारत क्यों है गरीब-4: घोर गरीबी से बाहर नहीं निकल पा रहे हैं लोग

भारत के कई इलाकों में गरीबी चिरस्थायी होती जा रही है। गरीबी उन्मूलन कार्यक्रमों के बावजूद इन इलाकों में गरीबी कम होने के बजाय ...

Rs 27 per day: India's new rural poverty line

New poverty estimate claims fastest ever decline in poverty during UPA's regime

Government's U turn on poverty line

Poor countries have remained poor, says World Bank

A new report confirms that Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are home to some of the poorest populations

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

Who are the poor?

Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included

Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court