Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Monday poverty estimates should not just be based on consumption expenditure alone, as is the current practice, but should be......
A task-force headed by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya will soon come up with a new methodology to estimate the number of poor in the country. The task force held its first meeting on......
The number of poor in the country declined to 27 crore (270 million) in 2011-12, from 40.74 crore (407.4 million) in 2004-05, Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev......