The World Bank raises the global poverty line to $3/day, revealing a 125 million increase in extreme poverty. However, India defies the trend, reducing its extreme poverty rate from 27.1% in 2011 to 5 ...

The new poverty line, adjusted for inflation and global economic conditions, raised the bar by 15% compared to the previous ...

India has significantly reduced poverty. Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to ...

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 ...

From 2011–12 to 2022–23, poverty rate for all LMICs declined 33.7 percentage points; in India, ‘extreme poverty’ per internal ...

Since the Easter Sunday terror attacks and thereafter, the global pandemic and the economic crisis, the poverty level in Sri Lanka ...

A WORLD Bank finding that nearly 45pc of Pakistanis live below the poverty line should not come as a surprise. Neither should ...

This adjustment was expected to sharply increase the global count of those living in extreme poverty which was visible on poverty figures, estimated at 226 million people. However, India's newly ...

World Bank data showed how India's extreme poverty rate dropped sharply in the last 10 years as free and subsidised food ...

Recent World Bank data reveals a significant decline in India's extreme poverty rate, dropping from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% ...

According to the World Bank’s recent report, around 54.7 million people in India were living on less than USD 3 per day in ...

In a major milestone, India’s extreme poverty rate dropped from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 to 5.3 per cent in 2022-23, lifting ...