Over the past four years, various government departments worked together to provide needy families with food, shelter, ...

In the decades following independence, India began implementing social and economic reforms aimed at poverty alleviation. Land reforms, the Green Revolution, and investments in infrastructure helped ...

The Pinarayi Vijayan government's 'Real Kerala Story' is at odds with the state's complex realities and ongoing workers' ...

Kerala is all set to make history as India’s first extreme poverty-free state on November 1, the 69th anniversary of its ...

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 ...

The declaration follows a targeted four-year push led by local bodies under the state’s Extreme Poverty Eradication Programme ...

Kerala claims historic extreme poverty eradication on Kerala Piravi Day, becoming India's first. Learn the multi-phase, community-led, and criticised initiative.

India's poverty continues to decline steadily, with the poverty rate likely to fall to 4.6 per cent in 2024, estimates a recent report by the State Bank of India (SBI). This marks a significant ...

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 ...

However, this Kerala story cannot be seen in isolation. A recent World Bank assessment based on the $3-a-day international ...

NEW DELHI, May 18 (Reuters) - India's key social development programmes, which have formed the core election promises of the ruling Congress party at a cost of over 2 percent of its GDP, are failing ...