In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

India has recorded a sharp decline in poverty over the last decade, the World Bank stated this in its latest report “Poverty & Equity Brief,” showing that extreme poverty fell to 2.3% in 2022–23, down ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

India’s pursuit of economic growth is increasingly constrained by three interlinked pressures: rising energy imports, rural income stagnation, and climate vulnerability. Policymakers often address ...

Faced with intensifying global strategic conflict and growing economic turbulence, including Trump’s tariff war, the Indian bourgeoisie is determined to intensify the exploitation of the working class ...

Can data really define poverty in India? The numbers certainly suggest progress. Fewer people live below the international poverty line. More people have access to food, jobs, electricity, and housing ...

Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

While hundreds of millions of poor people are struggling to survive without proper food, and even water, India’s richest person, billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has spent more than US$150 million for his ...

India is restructuring rural employment policy as improved state capacity coincides with persistent labour insecurity. Replacing MGNREGA with the VB-G Ram G Act shifts rural employment from a ...