SBI research shows that MGNREGA now covers only a small fraction of rural household expenditure, making its impact on poverty ...

New Delhi: Rural poverty in India has seen a remarkable decline. It dropped below 5 per cent for the first time in 2023-24 according to SBI Research. Increased rural spending played a key role in this ...

Rural poverty has dropped from 25.7 per cent to 4.86 per cent under Modi’s watch, thanks to evolved policies addressing ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Every response to my last column, ‘Let’s focus on poverty too as we pursue broader ambitious goals,’ had the same question: “Where is this place?” Extreme poverty, early death, environmental ...