India Lifts Millions Out Of Poverty While Pakistan Struggles, Reveals World Bank Report
In a stark contrast, India has made significant strides in reducing poverty, lifting 171 million people out of extreme poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, according to the World Bank. India's extreme poverty rate has declined sharply to 5.3% over the past decade, from 27.1% in 2011-12.
Jun 09, 2025, 11:10 AM IST
India Lifts 24.82 Crore People Out Of Multidimensional Poverty In 9 years: NITI Aayog Report
According to a NITI Aayog report, as many as 24.82 crore people in India have moved out of multidimensional poverty in the past nine years.
Jan 15, 2024, 18:36 PM IST
DNA: What is the most bothersome problem for Indians?
Zee News and Zee Darpan have done an opinion poll on the completion of 75 years of Independence in which opinion has been taken from more than 5,000 people from all over the country on selected issues of the country.
Aug 15, 2022, 23:38 PM IST
Zee Opinion Poll: Watch opinion polls on every major issue since Independence
Zee News and Zee Darpan have done an opinion poll on the completion of 75 years of Independence in which more than 5,000 people have given their opinion from all over the country. This poll is very interesting because in this you will get information about what changed in 75 years of Independence and which political face remained in limelight. In this poll, all questions related to the need of movements, height of celebrities, sports and cinema have been asked.
Aug 15, 2022, 21:52 PM IST
Extreme poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points during 2011-19: World Bank
The World Bank paper said urban poverty rose by 2 percentage points in 2016 during the demonetisation event and fell sharply thereafter, reported PTI.
Apr 19, 2022, 07:10 AM IST
Poverty rate has decreased in the country during the tenure of PM Modi
Poverty of the country has decreased very fast during the tenure of Prime Minister Modi, 12.3% of the country's poverty has decreased in 8 years
Apr 18, 2022, 11:44 AM IST
COVID-19 pushed 32 million Indians out of the middle class: Report
"India is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturn," the Pew Research Centre said.
Mar 19, 2021, 09:14 AM IST
Ivanka's remarks on poverty alleviation was for UPA govt, says Chidambaram
Ivanka Trump on Tuesday said reducing the gender gap in the labour force by half can help boost Indian economy by over USD 150 billion in the next three years.
Nov 28, 2017, 23:08 PM IST
View from the Window
It is not that one is not aware of living a relatively privileged life in a vastly poor country. But that day the reality hit me in a much more real manner.
Jul 08, 2016, 12:03 PM IST
Growth in states must for India to fight poverty: FM Jaitley
Strong economic growth in states is "imperative" for pushing up the country's GDP and giving it a "cutting edge" to fight poverty and generate jobs, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Friday.
Jan 08, 2016, 15:23 PM IST
DNA: Has India met the Millennium Development Goals?
The UN General Assembly adopted a new set of 17 sustainable development goals, to be achieved by 2030. These goals replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in the year 2000.
Nov 02, 2015, 23:57 PM IST
Indian economy's pace unsatisfactory: Chidambaram
Former finance minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday the present pace of the Indian economy will neither create any jobs nor it will help the country in coming out of poverty.
Jun 09, 2015, 14:42 PM IST
New methodology to estimate number of poor soon
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.
Apr 07, 2015, 21:47 PM IST
Bill Gates in bid to boost charity amongst India's rich
US billionaire Bill Gates will dine with some of India`s wealthiest people this weekend in a bid to encourage them to give more to charity, in a country where the rich are still seen as relatively tight-fisted.
Sep 20, 2014, 20:30 PM IST
India needs to work more to address poverty: FAO
India, the world's second largest wheat and rice grower, needs to make speedier progress towards reducing the number of hungry people, a top official of the UN food agency FAO said Monday.
Sep 08, 2014, 17:32 PM IST
PM asks neighbouring countries to jointly work to end poverty
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave a clarion call to all neighbouring and SAARC countries to work "shoulder-to-shoulder" to remove poverty from the region, leaving behind the world of death and killings.
Aug 15, 2014, 10:06 AM IST
UK lauds India's efforts to reduce poverty, stress on growth
The British government has appreciated India's fast movement towards reduction of poverty with "inclusiveness" and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stress on investment in growth and infrastructure was "encouraging".
Jul 18, 2014, 11:08 AM IST
3 out of 10 in India are poor: Rangarajan panel
A panel headed by former PMEAC Chairman C Rangarajan has dismissed the Tendulkar Committee report on estimating poverty and said that the number of poor in India was much higher in 2011-12 at 29.5 percent of the population, which means that three out of 10 persons are poor.
Jul 07, 2014, 02:44 AM IST
Rangarajan panel submits report on poverty to PlanComm
Former PMEAC chief C Rangarajan has submitted the report on Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty to Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh.
Jul 01, 2014, 14:31 PM IST
Rangarajan panel report on poverty today
The Planning Commission in May 2012 had constituted the expert group to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty, following an uproar over the number of poor in the country.
Jun 30, 2014, 09:19 AM IST