The Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mr . Kwesi Afreh Biney, has announced plans ...

Even if the precision of the World Bank’s inequality estimates is discounted, a significant improvement in India’s ...

The World Bank’s new estimates on poverty reveal that the concentration of extreme poverty has been moving from South Asia to ...

Despite India’s claim of historic poverty decline, new data raises doubts. Are vulnerable lives masked by changing metrics? Dig into the real numbers.

ISLAMABAD: Climate change could significantly slow progress in poverty reduction and climate-induced income losses could push ...

The DPR and government set a 2026 target to cut extreme poverty to 0-0.5 percent, down from the earlier zero percent goal.

Neighbouring countries like China, Bangladesh, and Nepal have managed to make meaningful progress in poverty alleviation ...

India has emerged as the fourth most equal country in the world, according to a new World Bank report that highlights a significant reduction in income inequality and extreme poverty between 2011-12 ...

Jairam Ramesh said government supporters are now trying to twist the data to claim that India is “one of the most equal societies.” ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...