Rural poverty in India saw a significant decline in 2023-24, with the poverty ratio falling below 5 per cent for the first time, according to an analysis by SBI Research. The sharp increase in rural ...
Summarising the results on poverty in India reported in Panagariya and More (2014), it was noted that poverty declined significantly across social, religious, and economic groups, in both rural and ...
India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3% over a decade from 27.1% in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation ...
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 ...
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Although it has lifted more than 415 million people out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-2006 and 2019-2021, climate stress threatens to reverse this progress. Nearly half the population ...
The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional. They involve, among other things, culture, climate, gender, markets, and public policy. Likewise, the rural poor are quite diverse both in ...
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