Millions no longer count as poor, but still live one crisis away from hunger, debt, or despair. Poverty on paper isn't ...

Officially, there has been no update to India’s poverty estimates since 2011, when there were about 269 million poor people in India (21.9% of the population), which was equivalent to 2.5 times ...

Notably, in India, the incidence of poverty fell from 55% (645 million) in 2005/2006 to 16% (230 million) in 2019/2021. According to the report, people in India who are multi-dimensionally poor ...

The 2023 Multidimensional Poverty Index Report finds over a third of all poor people in the world live in South Asia—which is around 389 million people. India contributes significantly to this ...

The report said based on 2020 population data for India, it has by far the largest number of poor people worldwide (228.9 million), followed by Nigeria (96.7 million projected in 2020).

The number of poor people in India fell by about 415 million between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a historic change and a demonstration that the Sustainable Development Goal target of reducing at least by ...

People living on less than USD 1.90 a day typically is considered to be in poverty. Besides India, China lifted 69 million out of poverty between 2010-2014, and Indonesia 8 million between 2012-2017.

Canacona: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated the house of a beneficiary under the Shram Dham initiative of the Shree Balram Trust at Ardhofond. Under the initiative, which is the brainchild of ...

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.

Mr Dube lamented India’s lack of progress: the number of poor people in the mid-1990s exceeded India’s entire population when it escaped British rule five decades before.