Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

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 ...

Has poverty been nearly eradicated in India? Yes, if one goes by the findings of a World Bank brief on poverty and equity released in April. As per the report, the proportion of people in India living ...

In 1997, Palaniappan Chidambaram wrote a budget of which middle-class Indians still wistfully dream. It slashed income and corporate taxes, encouraged foreign investment, and drove up the stock market ...

Stolen coal worth $1.5 million recovered last year Lack of jobs and skills pushes locals to scavenge coal Pickers use the fuel to cook, sell it cheaply to middlemen JHARIA/CHENNAI, India, Feb 8 ...

Luis Miranda, co-founder of the Indian School of Public Policy, described India as “the world’s first successful poor democracy” at the Liberty Forum. It is a phrase that initially feels provocative ...

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 ...

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...

Davos deliberations exacerbated some glaring gaps in India’s reality—between polluted cities and aspirational deals. There’s little reason to feel proud about a massive GDP when the average Indian ...

JHARIA/CHENNAI, India, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A tip-off led police officer Indradeo Rajwar into the Nimiya Tola forests of Hazaribagh, in eastern India, hot on the trail of two men on a ...