In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...

The declaration follows a targeted four-year push led by local bodies under the state’s Extreme Poverty Eradication Programme ...

By the end of March 2026 India will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. But the country falls short ...

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of ...

By Knut Ostby and Mohamed Shahudh How we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” in the 1980s broadened the ...

Extreme poverty will rise for the first time this century as COVID-19 hammers the global economy, the World Bank said on ...

To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the “International Poverty Line” ...

As the Kerala government threw a shindig on Nov 1 in its capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, to announce it had eradicated ...

According to the World Bank, “extreme poverty” means living on less than $2.15 (about R37) a day. Fully 67% of those ...

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Kerala, a model in many sectors, once again shows the way by becoming India’s first State to be free from extreme poverty.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made a historic declaration in the Legislative Assembly on the occasion of Kerala ...