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 ...

The poor in India are paying a higher proportion of their income in tax due to the Goods and Services Tax (GST), claimed Mukulika Banerjee, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, in a ...

A new analysis reveals that informal workers in India’s construction and agriculture sectors lose over 22 days of income each ...

While hundreds of millions of workers and rural poor in India struggle to make ends meet and some two hundred million people suffer from malnourishment, the income share of India’s wealthiest 1 ...

‘India isn't financially poor, but psychologically poor’: Viral video from Bengaluru restaurant shows people queuing for free food, triggers fierce debate TOI Trending Desk / etimes.in / Jul 03, 2026, ...

NEW DELHI — The world’s largest public employment plan, India’s job guarantees for rural workers, could be hollowed out by new legislation, the program’s defenders warn. Two decades ago, India ...