But on the morning of India’s 77th Independence ... illness-related healthcare expenses was the leading cause behind households’ descents into poverty. As governments focused on raising ...

Save the Children has worked in India since the 1940s, setting up its first Delhi office in the early ... With a focus on ensuring that every child has the opportunity to thrive, we work tirelessly to ...

A report by the State Bank of India (SBI) has revealed progress in reducing poverty levels in India.These figures mark a decline from FY23 estimates, which placed rural poverty at 7.2 per cent and ...

A research study by State Bank of India (SBI) highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has reduced to minimal with poverty rates in the country falling below 5 percent in 2024.

She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 ...

India has had several committees since independence that were tasked to gather poverty estimates. TheTendulkar committee (2009) had estimated India’s poverty ratio at 21.9% (25.7% rural; 13.7% ...

New Delhi, Along with the sharp decline in poverty in India, there has also been a marked reduction in the rural-urban income divide in the country, according to an SBI Research analysis of a ...