India lifted 171 million people from extreme poverty, reducing rural-urban gap and transitioning to lower-middle-income ...

Extreme poverty (living on less than USD 2.15 per day) fell from 16.2 percent in 2011-12 to 2.3 percent in 2022-23, lifting ...

She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 ...

The sharp decline in extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) from 16.2% in 2011–12 to just 2.3% in 2022–23 marks ...

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But while India has made massive economic progress transitioning from a low-income to a middle-income country, it still had 234mn people living in poverty, according to the Global Multidimensional ...

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Now aged 58, she has been working in India as the only Japanese member ... in 1925 by Austrian native Anna Dengel to provide poor people with better access to health care. Dengel raised ...

Despite such progress, challenges remain. India is still home to more than 170 million poor people, and economic growth and access to opportunities have spread unevenly among population groups and ...

The World Bank reports India lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, reducing it to 2.3 ...

Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4 per cent to 2.8 per cent, and urban from 10.7 per cent to 1.1 per cent, narrowing the ...