India's extreme poverty rate decreased to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12. Approximately 269 million individuals were lifted out of extreme poverty in 11 years. Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra ...

It's become increasingly exposed amid internal party divisions over the government's forthcoming welfare reforms, which are expected to push another 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 ...

ISLAMABAD: Almost forty-five per cent of Pakistan’s population lives below the poverty line, according to a World Bank report released on Thursday. The finding, based on a survey conducted in ...

A WORLD Bank finding that nearly 45pc of Pakistanis live below the poverty line should not come as a surprise. Neither should the fact that the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has ...

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 ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

The General Sales Tax has the largest marginal contribution to the rise of poverty, while a monthly cash transfer programme to the poorest families has the largest positive impact on inequality ...

This paper offers four findings. First, rural poverty saw a modest decline despite the onset of COVID-19 in 2019–20 and fell as sharply in 2020–21 as it had in 2018–19. Second, urban poverty rose ...

In a remarkable achievement, Jamaica has announced a record decline in its poverty rates, with the latest figures revealing an unprecedented 8.2 percent — the lowest since the country began ...

The World Bank’s mission is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. To effectively monitor progress toward this goal, it is critical to measure poverty on a regular ...

The research also found that the public expects leadership from Westminster and Stormont to address child poverty. Credit: PA Most of the Northern Ireland public want to see government take action ...

The World Bank has raised the international benchmark for extreme poverty to USD3 a day from the earlier USD 2.15 per person per day for low-income countries. For lower-middle-income countries ...