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 ...

According to the 2023-24 fractile distribution, the poverty rate in rural areas has dropped to 4.86 per cent, while urban ...

The number of people living in extreme poverty in India has dipped to 75.24 million in FY 2022-23 from 344.47 million in FY 2011-12. Incidentally, India’s huge reduction in extreme poverty comes at a ...

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 ...

At that time, the state government took the decision to eradicate extreme poverty. Kerala has done very well in eradicating ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of ...

Kerala has officially been declared an “extreme poverty-free state”, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Saturday. With this, it became the first state in the country to make such a ...

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Estimates of poverty in India are crucial inputs for the understanding of world poverty, yet there is much disagreement about the numbers and the legitimacy of methods used to derive them. In this ...