India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3% over a decade from 27.1% in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation ...
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: ...
In a significant endeavor to tackle poverty-related issues, sixty graduate students at Kristu Jayanti College, a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) in India that also ...
Comedian Louis CK, after his first India tour in March, contrasted poverty in Indian cities with that in New York, calling it ‘functioning poverty’. He said he saw no one visibly homeless or openly ...
He asserted that although people in India face ‘poverty’, nobody is living ‘homeless or openly consuming drugs’ in the way he ...
The conflict and military escalation in West Asia threatens to push 2.5 million people in India into poverty, and the country is projected to experience some loss in its human development progress, ...
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 ...
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 ...