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 ...

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said extreme poverty has been eliminated in Kerala and that the State is on a stable path ...

Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

In a major step towards eliminating extreme poverty, the Telangana government has decided to extend the Telangana Grameena Integrated Livelihood Programme (TGILP) to seven additional mandals, ...

The World Bank says that India has made radical strides in eliminating extreme poverty. The reality on the ground is more complicated.

On Nov. 1, the southern Indian state of Kerala will be officially declared the first among the nation’s 28 states to be “free of extreme poverty.” This is a remarkable achievement, experts say, as the ...

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