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

She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 ...

India's lower house of Parliament on Monday approved sweeping legislation guaranteeing cheap grain for nearly 70% of the country's 1.2 billion people, ... House Passes Food Bill to Help Poor.

A number of people both within India and abroad think India is a poor country. It is not. The bulk of India’s people remain poor because we are not able to give basic education to our children ...

NEW DELHI — India’s government is moving to keep a risky promise of guaranteed jobs for millions of rural poor despite warnings that it can’t afford a multibillion-dollar welfare program. A ...

India only managed to reduce its poverty rate (the ratio of the number of people who fall below the poverty line and a country’s total population) from 49.4% in 1994 to 42% in 2005 and 32.7% in ...

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 ...

BHUBANESWAR, India — Flights were canceled. Train service was out. And one of the biggest storms in years was bearing down on Odisha, one of India’s poorest states, where millions of people ...

Shanti Bhavan, a boarding school in Tamil Nadu in southern India, has provided free education to the poor for 20 years, in exchange for a sense of duty and service to the community once graduates ...