Millions no longer count as poor, but still live one crisis away from hunger, debt, or despair. Poverty on paper isn't ...

Despite India’s claim of historic poverty decline, new data raises doubts. Are vulnerable lives masked by changing metrics? Dig into the real numbers.

India, reportedly, has the highest poverty rate with 22.89 crore ... Of course, when communal tension strikes, it affects all in areas targeted, but as suggested the poor suffer the most.

India Bulldozes Poor Areas Ahead of G20 Summit in Delhi. Headline Sep 06, 2023. Link copied. India is preparing to host the G20’s annual summit for the first time.

The poverty line is now set at INR 1,632 for rural areas and INR 1,944 for urban areas, significantly higher than the INR 816 (rural) and INR 1,000 (urban) benchmarks established in 2011-12.

We spot an old woman sitting cross-legged staring blankly into the distance, unemployed and poor. Her teeth are stained red from chewing tobacco flavoured betel leaf. Images like this are not uncommon ...

India extends world's largest coronavirus lockdown 01:44. New Delhi — Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday that India's nationwide lockdown would be extended until May 3 to fight the ...

With an average annual growth rate of 10 percent, China has lifted over 600 million of its 1.3 billion citizens out of extreme poverty—those who earn less than $1 a day—since 1981. In the same ...

According to the United Nations, the growth change in India's urban population is 1.1 percent each year, while the change in the proportion of people in rural areas is declining by 0.37 percent ...

Sugar crops in some of India’s major growing regions are in desperate need of rain as drier conditions threaten the production outlook, which may place more pressure on containing rising food costs.

India's Boom Bypasses Rural Poor. ... Resize. NAKRASAR, India ... a gigantic program designed to create jobs through building infrastructure in a developing nation's most-backward rural areas. ...