Climate shocks such as floods, droughts, and rising temperatures are worsening poverty in India, especially in ...

Walk through any Indian city, and you will see them — lean dogs with watchful eyes, picking through garbage, sleeping in shadows, occasionally barking at strangers. India has roughly 60 million street ...

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 ...

Last month, the World Bank released yet another set of poverty estimates for India and bang, bang. The hammer dropped. Extreme poverty is nearly dead. Just some 3.3 crore Indians are extremely poor as ...

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...