Experts discuss the accuracy of poverty estimates in India based on the 2023-24 HCES data in a moderated conversation.

a menstrual cup company, and the charity Action Foundation. Asan’s donation scheme has helped over 75,000 women in India combat period poverty.

Even today, many young women are forced to drop out from schools due to inadequate menstrual infrastructure. Through her ...

India's rural poverty ratio has registered a dramatic ... poverty has fallen to 4.09 per cent from 4.6 per cent during this period, according to a report.

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, ...

If one expects sustainable growth above 7%, then India appears to have been in a structural slowdown for many years. But if ...

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This puts all-India poverty levels somewhere between 4% and ... The surveys are using a modified mixed reference period (MMRP) method, in which households are asked about their consumption in ...