poverty in india

The FAS study challenges government reports claiming poverty has drastically fallen in India, asserting that 26.4% of the population lives below the poverty line. It critiques outdated poverty measurement methods and highlights stagnating rural incomes.

Poverty level among SC ST; The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (GMPI) report states that five out of six people living

A report by Niti Aayog, released on January 15, predicts that poverty in India will drop from 29.17% in 2013-14 to 11.28% in 2022-23.

UNICEF and the World Bank released a new analysis today, estimating that a total of 333 million children globally live in extreme poverty

A new report by two agencies of the United Nations indicates that by 2030, one in four women and girls in the world will lack enough food,

Mental health expense India; A recent research paper has highlighted that as many as 20% of households in India become poor

As Covid-19 raged and forced a shutdown on Indian Railways in March 2020, tens of thousands of children dependent on a railway platform – directly or indirectly

Puneet*, an 18-year-old adolescent looks purposeful but a little restless as he moves from one trash can to the next picking up empty plastic water bottles at New Delhi Railway Station.

During the pandemic a new billionaire was created every 30 hours; for each of them, at almost the same rate, a million people could fall into extreme poverty in 2022.

The World Inequality Report states that the top one percent of the population in India accounts for a fifth of the total national income in 2021, while the bottom half accounts for just 13.1 percent.