Poverty

We have drifted away from Gandhiji's vision for villages

Riding on the better social indicators like health and primary education, India has achieved an over 27 per cent decline in poverty and is well on

A day after the World Bank said over 45 crore Indians live below 1.25 dollar a day, another multilateral agency ADB has came up with a new indicator

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The contrast could not have been sharper. For a country which has 56
billionaires on the latest Forbes list and 296 million cellphones, as many as 456 million of India's billion-plus people live below the poverty line.

The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission recently disclosed that the government of India would be redefining the measures of poverty from one based on income and nutrition levels to a more holistic measure, based on a cocktail of development indicators.

Making a strong pitch for Indo-US nuclear deal, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said atomic energy was essential for ending poverty in the

France's finance minister on Sunday urged Europe and Asia to work together to ease the effects of soaring fuel and food prices. Christine Lagarde made the comments as South Korea,

Price pressures remain the biggest worry for Asia, where high inflation is already threatening to spoil the gains against poverty achieved over the last two decades,

Implementation of the government’s ambitious Rs 55,000-crore Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewable Mission (JNURM) in isolation may not serve the purpose of providing housing to the urban poor, which con