Can data really define poverty in India? The numbers certainly suggest progress. Fewer people live below the international poverty line. More people have access to food, jobs, electricity, and housing ...

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 ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in ...

Comedian Louis CK, after his first India tour in March, contrasted poverty in Indian cities with that in New York, calling it ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

He asserted that although people in India face ‘poverty’, nobody is living ‘homeless or openly consuming drugs’ in the way he ...

The faith India’s poor and excluded had in education is faltering. And it is the consequence of a policy drift, writes ...

Mr. Aiyar is an economist. The World Bank’s measure of extreme poverty, at $2.15 a day, represents a level of deprivation that is rarely seen in the West. At this income, hunger or its shadow is an ...