In the decades following independence, India began implementing social and economic reforms aimed at poverty alleviation.

According to the 2023-24 fractile distribution, the poverty rate in rural areas has dropped to 4.86 per cent, while urban areas report an even lower figure of 4.09 per cent. A report by the State Bank ...

As the Kerala government threw a shindig on Nov 1 in its capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, to announce it had eradicated ...

This chart shows the share of children of official primary school age who were not enrolled in primary education in 2024, by ...

Back in the 1980s when I was a post-graduate student pursuing economics at the Gokhale Institute in Pune, we were perhaps the ...

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 ...

The measurement of poverty in India has been a contentious issue, starting with the Great Indian Poverty Debate in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The release of two working papers, namely Bhalla et ...

Kerala’s extreme poverty-free claim should provoke a return to the political possibility of realising positive freedom—as a ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) ended extreme poverty in the ...

By the end of March 2026 India will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. But the country falls short ...