Over the past four years, various government departments worked together to provide needy families with food, shelter, ...

In the decades following independence, India began implementing social and economic reforms aimed at poverty alleviation.

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

Kerala’s extreme poverty-free claim should provoke a return to the political possibility of realising positive freedom—as a ...

The Pinarayi Vijayan government's 'Real Kerala Story' is at odds with the state's complex realities and ongoing workers' protests.

The post, which jokingly declared that the “poverty line in Bengaluru starts at 50 LPA,” triggered several reactions from tech professionals, meme-makers, and economists-in-the-comments. (Also Read: ...

Back in the 1980s when I was a post-graduate student pursuing economics at the Gokhale Institute in Pune, we were perhaps the last of the batch to listen to guest lectures by the late VM Dandekar.

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 ...

Kerala claims historic extreme poverty eradication on Kerala Piravi Day, becoming India's first. Learn the multi-phase, community-led, and criticised initiative.

But one thing is certain, Kerala does not have the stark poverty that one sees in many other States. Kerala’s bountiful ...

NEW DELHI, May 18 (Reuters) - India's key social development programmes, which have formed the core election promises of the ruling Congress party at a cost of over 2 percent of its GDP, are failing ...