While millions of children are getting vaccinated in India, small regions within districts are still struggling, according to a new Lancet study.

India observes National Girl Child Day annually on January 24 to raise awareness of gender equality and advocate for equal ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

The paper highlights issues with the methodology adopted by the GoI, which estimates poverty at just 5% based on "positive ...

Digital access and health insurance are critical determinants of wealth yet large sections of India remain deprived ... effectively identify and address poverty hotspots. Since 2015, The Wire ...

“Thanks to your policies, India was able to lift 27 crore people, the highest number of poor people, out of poverty,” Kharge wrote in a letter to Singh. The numbers laid out by Kharge and Modi ...

India is in a period of unprecedented opportunity, challenge and ambition in its development. The country’s extreme poverty rate has fallen from 46 percent to 21 percent in the two decades up to 2011, ...

At age 3, children from wealthier families who lived in high-poverty neighborhoods were about as likely to act out as their peers born into poor families. The study relied on data from portions of ...