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India’s richest 10% earn less than poorest 10% of rich nations, World bank data says

Recent World Bank data reveals that the poorest 10 percent of people in wealthy nations earn more than the richest 10 percent in India

Military conflict in West Asia could push 2.5 million people in India into poverty

India is also projected to experience some loss in its human development progress

Kerala’s costly celebration: Poverty eradication funds redirected for grand announcement

The government is set to announce the state as 'extreme poverty-free' at a public event in Thiruvananthapuram, spending Rs 1.5 crore

Rural poverty rates declined below 5% in FY2024, urban poverty too fell: Report

The sample proportion for poverty in rural areas was 4.86 per cent in the financial year ended March 2024, which is significantly lower than the previous year's estimates of rural poverty at 7.2 per cent.

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RSS leader voices concern over poverty, inequality; Congress credits Bharat Jodo Yatra

RSS functionary however blamed past govts' 'faulty' economic policies as the cause

Image of former Afghanistan TV anchor selling food goes viral

Afghanistan's economy has been in a dire state since the Taliban took over

Implications of Joe Biden's executive order to use part of Afghanistan's assets to assist 9/11 victims

More than half of the population, are facing extreme famine this winter

Oxfam: 11 people die of hunger each minute around the globe

Number of people living at crisis levels of food insecurity rose by 20 mn in a year

Malnutrition due to food inequalities costing world $13.6 tln annually: Report

The double burden of malnutrition and the rising demographics add pressure

President Xi declares complete victory in eradicating poverty in China

China has a population of around 1.4 billion

World Food Day 2020: Starve a feeder, feed the world

Food security has been a collective and daunting challenge for humanity for decades

Everyone should take pledge to ensure malnutrition-free India: Amit Shah

Shah praised 'Poshan Abhiyaan' as a robust scheme to eliminate malnutrition

India records largest reduction in number of people living in poverty: UN

273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16

1 billion people could live in poverty post COVID-19, says study

The pandemic is likely to reduce income of the poorest by USD 500 million a day

Kenya: Mother ‘boiling’ stones for hungry kids portrays grim reality of COVID-19

A Kenyan widow of eight children kept boiling stones to keep their hopes alive

Food insecure people doomed to die early: Study

Policies to address food insecurity have the potential to reduce premature death

India can increase food output by growing sorghum, millets in rice areas: Study

India can enhance its food production by planting crops such as sorghum and millets

Consumer spending at 4-decade low; India risks rising poverty, malnutrition

Average Indian spent Rs 56 per month lesser in 2017-18 compared to 2011-12: Survey

Didn't learn poverty from books; lived it: Modi recalls his past in Saudi

'Not from any big political family; reached here by selling tea on railway platform'

Rahul slams PM over hunger index ranking

Rahul attacked Prime Minister Modi over India ranking 102 in the Global Hunger Index

Global Hunger Index: India ranks below Pakistan, Nepal, China

At 102, India is below Pak (94), Bangladesh(88), Lanka (66), Nepal (73), China (25)

India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006, 2016: UN

Jharkhand cut multidimensional poverty from 74.9% in 2005-06 to 46.5% in 2015-16

Women's unpaid work behind malnutrition in India: Study

Indian women's unaccounted contribution in agricultural work has a detrimental impact

Nuclear scientist-turned-social worker Parameswara Rao no more

Parameswara Rao was THE WEEK's Man of the Year in 1987