In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

Rural poverty has dropped sharply to 4.86% in the fiscal year ending March 2024, down from 25.7% in 2011-12, primarily due to government support programs, according to a research report by SBI ...

India has seen a great reduction in its poverty rate since its Independence, with several factors, including government-launched schemes, helping its citizens uplift themselves to a better life. At ...

Kerala has set script history once again as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan officially declared the state as "extreme poverty-free" on Saturday (November 1) on the occasion of the state formation day.

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country's population, thought to ...

Kerala formally announced a historic milestone today on Kerala Piravi Day. It has successfully eradicated extreme poverty. With this, the state has become the first state in India to officially ...

New Delhi: As the poverty rates in the country declined below 5 per cent in 2024, a research study by the State Bank of India (SBI) also highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has reduced ...

Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from ...

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 ...