In an assessment earlier this April, the World Bank said 1.9 million additional people fell into poverty in 2024-25 in ...

In just over a decade, India has lifted nearly 270 million people out of extreme poverty — an unprecedented achievement in ...

In its latest update, the World Bank has revised India's poverty rate downwards. But it has also flagged issues with India's ...

In a strong endorsement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's transformational governance, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Chandni ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzanian business magnate Mohammed “Mo” Dewji has surged to a net worth of $2.2 billion, according to Forbes’ 2025 Africa’s Billionaires List, making him the richest person in East ...

The question of whether Nigeria is a rich or poor country has sparked heated debates among economists, policymakers, and ...

Since 2023, Indonesia has been categorized as an upper-middle-income country. When measured using PPP US$8.30, the poverty ...

The RBI surprised markets with a 50 bps rate cut, signaling a front-loaded push to support growth. With limited room left for ...

While the revision led to a global increase in the count of extreme poverty by 125 million, India not only withstood the raised threshold but demonstrated a massive drop in poverty ...

India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World ...

India has imposed anti-dumping duties on insoluble sulphur from China and Japan, along with vitamin-A palmitate from China, ...

What this effectively means is that 269 million people rose above the international poverty line over the last 11 years. The ...