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 ...

Has poverty been nearly eradicated in India? Yes, if one goes by the findings of a World Bank brief on poverty and equity released in April. As per the report, the proportion of people in India living ...

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 ...