Home to some of the most ancient surviving civilizations, today’s India is the world’s largest democracy and a rising economic powerhouse. But it is tackling major social, economic and environmental ...

India, and in slums across the country, opportunities for success are hard to come by. But a nonprofit called Chetna has been helping children out of poverty through the power of journalism.

How do you define poverty? Is poverty being underestimated in India? P.C. Mohanan: We had a stable definition of poverty from the late 1970s to 2005. We started with the expenditure required for ...

A report by the State Bank of India (SBI) has revealed progress in reducing poverty levels in India.These figures mark a decline from FY23 estimates, which placed rural poverty at 7.2 per cent and ...

Is poverty being underestimated in India? Here we discuss the question. Guests: P.C. Mohanan, former member of the National Statistical Commission; N.R. Bhanumurthy, Director of the Madras School ...

New Delhi, Along with the sharp decline in poverty in India, there has also been a marked reduction in the rural-urban income divide in the country, according to an SBI Research analysis of a ...