She also chats us through how extreme poverty rates across India have plummeted in the past decade. Email: [email protected] ...

The number of people in India living in extreme poverty declined sharply in the last decade, from 27.1% to 5.3%, as per latest data estimates released by the World Bank. According to the World Bank’s ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country’s population, thought to ...

There will be no change in the supply of foodgrains to Kerala under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) even as the State government has declared itself free from extreme poverty, Food Minister Pralhad ...

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

Extreme poverty in developing countries fell 25% since 1990 and may be further halved so long as economic growth rates in those countries maintain their pace, the World Bank said in an annual report ...

Many wonder what they can do to improve the conditions of those living in abject poverty in India. Everyone can contribute, ...

Under the National Food Security Act, 35 kg of foodgrains per household per month is provided to those covered under AAY, and ...

Between 1990 and today, the number of people living in extreme poverty — meaning on the equivalent of $3 or less per day in US purchasing power — fell from 2.3 billion to around 800 million, even as ...

In celebration of our partners and the great work they do to advance economic progress for all, we interviewed some of our Nasdaq Foundation grant recipients about their roles, backgrounds and the ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rise in rural wages now taking place across Asia could lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty in the next decade, a new report showed on ...