Poverty can be overcome with on-the-ground strategies enabling millions of people around the world to move out of "multidimensional poverty," according to research published today by the United ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

NEW DELHI: India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty in the decade spanning from 2011-12 to 2022-23, according to the World Bank's latest "Poverty & Equity Brief." The ...

A new analysis reveals that informal workers in India’s construction and agriculture sectors lose over 22 days of income each ...

On Oct 17, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), released their annual Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (GMPI) report: ...

Multidimensional poverty in India, which apart from food covers access to health and education facilities, is estimated to have declined from 29.17 per cent in 2013-14 to 11.28 per cent in 2022-23 ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...

NEW DELHI — The world’s largest public employment plan, India’s job guarantees for rural workers, could be hollowed out by new legislation, the program’s defenders warn. Two decades ago, India ...