But it is tackling major social, economic and environmental issues, including a huge gap between the wealthy and those living in poverty. Save the Children has worked in India since the 1940s, setting ...

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.

A study by MIT economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

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 ...

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 ...