In a recent study, economists from the RBI updated the Rangarajan poverty line for 20 major states. The result showed Odisha ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

India has built the hardware. Now the country must focus on the software – the people, their skills, their health and ...

Expanding the Public Distribution System to ensure desirable levels of consumption of pulses by eliminating subsidies for ...

The startup, Karya, pays thousands of people in low-income communities to create voice recordings and text on their smartphones. It can be easy to overlook the people behind all the technology we use.

CNNU is following two student teams from the University of Southern California as they work to improve the quality of life in India. One team, Water and Health, is working to provide pure water.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper examines the empirical relationship between economic inequality, poverty and economic growth in the Indian states. Using NSS data ...