India’s poverty rate is expected to come down further to 4.6 per cent in 2024, according to a State Bank of India (SBI) report. A new World Bank report projects that India’s extreme poverty has come ...

India has managed to lift 302 million people out of poverty over the past 12 years, thanks to rapid economic growth and targeted welfare policies. The sharpest declines in poverty rates have been ...

Thirty years ago Siddharth Dube, a writer, visited a small village in northern India near the site of a historic peasants’ revolt. He found plenty that remained enraging: mud huts, primitive ploughs, ...