Can data really define poverty in India? The numbers certainly suggest progress. Fewer people live below the international poverty line. More people have access to food, jobs, electricity, and housing ...

In India, talking about money is still uncomfortable. People are hesitant to disclose income, especially if it’s informal, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in ...

Amid the hustle, bustle of India's big cities, beneath the skyline of rapid development, lies an often unseen reality. The reality where mental distress, mental health issues trouble India's urban ...

MUMBAI, India – As the Church marked the World Day of the Poor, an archbishop in India spoke about how in one area rich in minerals and forest, the people still suffer from poverty. Archbishop Vincent ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

Mr. Aiyar is an economist. The World Bank’s measure of extreme poverty, at $2.15 a day, represents a level of deprivation that is rarely seen in the West. At this income, hunger or its shadow is an ...

Leo XIV authorised the promulgation of the decree recognising the Australian missionary as venerable, the first step toward beatification. In 1920, she obtained a special papal dispensation to ...