Page 2 - Poverty In India

Should purchasing power parity of $3.2 be made India's formal poverty line?

Experts have some reservations about the methodology used to arrive at the number, and that the poverty figures under the existing PPP of $1.9 per person per day have been understated

Top headlines: Fall of extreme poverty, regulation of gaming industry

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Extreme poverty in India fell sharply in 2011-19: World Bank paper

Rural decline steeper than in urban centres

During Covid, free food helped rein in poverty in India: IMF paper

India has "eliminated low-income poverty (which is based the purchasing power parity or PPP of $1.9 per person a day)", the lead author of the paper said

'Pew's view that 75 mn pushed into poverty is an opinion survey'

"As India has eliminated low-income poverty and has become a lower-middle income country, it's more useful to start using the $3.2/day poverty line"

India's poor deprived in more ways than one, but state count misses that

Income, consumption or lack of "capabilities": what makes a person poor in India?

Empowered poor aligned with good governance eliminates poverty: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that poverty is eliminated with the empowerment of the people while aligning their strength with good governance.

Optimistic scenario: Can growth take care of all the economy's problems?

If the government thinks growth is the solution, can it be delivered in a slowing world with rising rates - within the domestic context of slower growth even before the pandemic, asks T N Ninan

Tejashwi Yadav slams Nitish Kumar govt over NITI Aayog ranking of Bihar

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday slammed CM Nitish Kumar over Bihar's low ranking in NITI Aayog's poverty index baseline report and said that the "double-engine" govt is responsible for this

India 'poor and very unequal' with affluent elite: World Inequality Report

Fruits of economic reforms monopolised by the elite: World Inequality Report

Top headlines: RBI mum on corporates in banks; Niti releases poverty index

Business Standard brings you the top stories on Friday

BS Number Wise: A number for the poor in India

State welfare schemes often benefit the privileged as the government puts off setting up updated measures to define poverty

Statsguru: Six charts explain another dimension of poverty in India

The report highlights that differences among social groups define the incidence and intensity of poverty

Dip in India's rank in Global Hunger Index 2021 'shocking', says govt

The Centre on Friday said it was shocking that India's rank was lowered on the Global Hunger Index, terming the methodology used for rankings "unscientific". India slipped to 101st position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 of 116 countries, from its 2020 position of 94th. It is now behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Reacting sharply to the report, the Women and Child Development Ministry said it is "shocking" to find that the Global Hunger Report 2021 has lowered the rank of India on the basis of FAO estimate on proportion of undernourished population which is found to be "devoid of ground reality and facts and suffers from serious methodological issues". "The publishing agencies of the Global Hunger Report, Concern Worldwide and Welt Hungerhilfe, have not done their due diligence before releasing the report," the ministry said in a statement. The methodology used by FAO is "unscientific", the ministry claimed.

In India's pandemic, the rich buy luxury cars and the poor lose their homes

Obsessed with keeping a lid on borrowing costs, the government is making things worse for the common man by its regressive consumption taxes.

Best of BS Opinion: Accounting gains, games promoters play & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

230 million Indians pushed into poverty amid Covid-19 pandemic: Report

As the pandemic and eventual lockdowns wreaked havoc on the economy and livelihoods, around 230 mn Indians have been pushed into poverty during the past year, showed a report by Azim Premji University

Primary health to insurance: Five non-Covid-19 areas to focus on in 2021

Issues such as tackling tuberculosis and health insurance, which could have been addressed in 2020, were sidelined

India and World Bank sign $400 mn project to protect poor from Covid impact

India on Wednesday signed a pact worth Dollar 400 million with the World Bank in a bid to aid the poor and vulnerable reeling under the coronavirus crisis

Elitist mindset behind India's learning poverty, says Abhijit Banerjee

There is evidence to show that enough people don't know about the benefits of education, says Banerjee