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 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.

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 ...

Panaji: Born with visual impairment, Bastora-resident Sangeeta Reddy has seen a life of challenges. Through the struggles ...

Thirty percent of Detroiters live below the poverty line. That's a number three times the national average. It's worse for the city's children. The U.S. Census Bureau puts the youth poverty rate ...

The study, which was published in the Review of Agrarian Studies, suggests that official estimates may be underreporting the true scale of poverty in the country. A recent study has found that 26. ...

While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the ...

This diva ruled Bollywood for 20 years. She worked with many big stars of the 60s-70s including Shammi Kapoor-Rajendra Kumar.

The Government is being accused of “patting itself on the back for creating a talking shop” on child poverty while the number of homeless children rose by 12pc in the past year. This comes as ...

He illustrated a children’s book published ... he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian honour. He ...

According to statistics released by the U.S. Census last month, large numbers of North Carolina’s children continue to live in poverty. ‘There’s tons of brain research that shows that poverty can ...

Trichy: There has been a surge in child marriages and cases registered under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act in Trichy distric.