By bno - Mumbai Office At a special session of the Kerala Assembly convened on November 1 to mark Kerala Piravi, Chief ...

Citing data from NITI Aayog, the Ministers said Kerala had the lowest poverty rate in India, with only 0.7% of the population ...

Kerala's declaration as India's first poverty-free state is a historic milestone built on decades of decentralised governance, women empowerment through Kudumbashree and strong social infrastructure.

India's poverty rates are expected to fall to 4.6 per cent for the year 2024 amid overall economic growth, reported the news agency ANI on Tuesday, 10 June 2025, citing a State Bank of India (SBI) ...

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has declared Kerala the first state in India to eradicate extreme poverty, marking a major milestone on Kerala Piravi Day.

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of ...

NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the ...

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, ...

In this sharp and unsettling collection, Joseph asks why inequality endures, and finds the answer in habit, hypocrisy and ...