More than 43 million Americans lived below poverty line in 2015, a US Census report said on Tuesday, indicating that the world's largest economy experienced one of the sharpest decline in poverty......
India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to $3 per day. Image......
As the poverty rates in the country declined below 5 percent in 2024, a research study by State Bank of India also highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has been reduced to minimal.......
The atmosphere in the police interrogation room at Srinagar is tense but a Haryana preacher detained in connection with a 'white-collar' terror module remains focused on unpaid rent from arrested......
'All governments are scared of a negative image.''Somehow, this government has a tendency to create a narrative that things are improving.''When the real data gives a different picture, they are......
One in six Americans are now living below poverty line, the Census Bureau said in a report, reflecting the adverse impact of economic crisis on common man. "The nation's official poverty rate in......
As per the latest available estimates based on large sample survey data on household consumer expenditure, 27.5 per cent people lived below poverty line in the country based on Urban Rural......
An estimated 12.6 million people in Britain, 22 per cent of the total population, currently live below the poverty line despite the progress the country has made, a survey indicated on......
Boasting of having the highest per capita income among all the major ethnic groups, more than eight percent of the nearly three million Indian Americans are living below the poverty line in the......
The Asian Development Bank has revised its poverty line to $1.51 per person a day compared to $1.25 by the World Bank, which would push the numbers of poor by 182 million to 584 million in 2010......
Palak and Anuja endear us to their bittersweet world, observes Sukanya Verma. Anuja begins with a girl telling her tween sibling a Panchatantra story about how a faithful mongoose saved a farmer's......