Wed, Apr 03, 2024
Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than $3.65 a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank in its Poverty Macro Update on Bangladesh.
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Mon, Feb 26, 2024
The average per capita monthly expenditure of the bottom 0-5 per cent class is pegged at Rs 1,373 in rural areas and Rs 2,001 in urban areas.
Thu, Aug 10, 2023
Monsoon Session Updates: In the Government of India, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attacked the Congress fiercely. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while targeting the Congress on the slogan of Garibi Hatao, said that the Congress did not remove poverty, Modi government's schemes have reduced poverty. Along with this, he said that we worked with 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas'.
Tue, Aug 01, 2023
Child Trafficking: Child trafficking cases have increased rapidly in the last few years. According to the report 'The Child Trafficking in India' prepared by Games24x7 and Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, the highest number of children have been trafficked between 2016 and 2022. At the same time, child trafficking cases have increased by 68% since the epidemic in the capital Delhi. Most of the children are trafficked from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Telangana. At the same time, Jaipur is the biggest base for bringing the children who are victims of trafficking.
Mon, Jul 17, 2023
India witnessed 13.5 crore people moving out of multidimensional poverty between 2015-16 and 2019-21 with fastest reduction in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan, a Niti Aayog report said on Monday.
Sat, Apr 13, 2019
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das says India's economy needs to grow more faster to tackle poverty and other issues. Watch this video to know more.
Fri, Dec 21, 2018
"World Data Lab anticipates the effects of these methodological adjustments will result in a level of extreme poverty in India today of 50 million people, which will come down to 40 million (a poverty rate of below 3 percent ) by end 2019," the report said.
Sat, Sep 22, 2018
This is almost a quarter of the population of the 104 countries for which the 2018 MPI is calculated. Of these 1.3 billion, almost half - 46 per cent - are thought to be living in severe poverty and are deprived in at least half of the dimensions covered in the MPI, it said.
Thu, Jun 28, 2018
India is no longer a nation with the world's largest population of poor
The study, titled 'The start of a new poverty narrative' and published in the Brookings' blog, is authored by Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel and Martin Hofer.
Sun, Feb 11, 2018
PM Modi rued that even after all the development, poverty and malnutrition have still not been eliminated
Sun, Dec 04, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he "will find a way" to jail the rich who had after demonetisation stashed their ill-gotten wealth in Jan Dhan bank accounts of the poor, and let the poor retain their money.
Wed, Aug 24, 2016
India, a country which was home to the largest number of poor people in the world, according to 2012 estimates, has now featured in the
Wed, Jul 13, 2016
While the world's population has increased by 2 billion since 1990 to 2015, the people living in extreme poverty has more than halved.
Wed, Jun 22, 2016
Key trends in the economy that it said will slowly choke off avenues to future growth if not addressed soon.
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