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Consumption in rural areas is growing faster than urban areas, thus narrowing the disparities between the two segments

India’s poverty level falls below 5%: NITI Aayog CEO

PGurus Newsdesk - February 26, 2024 0

Latest NSSO consumer survey indicates poverty down to 5%: NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam The latest household consumer expenditure survey indicates that India's poverty level...

According to the National Multidimensional Poverty Index by NITI Aayog, India has witnessed a steep decline in poverty headcount ration during the last nine years

Government of India claims 24.82 crore people escaped multidimensional poverty in last nine years

Team PGurus - January 15, 2024 0

India logged a steep decline in population below the poverty line in last nine years, claims Niti Aayog The Government of India on Monday claimed...

The panel was set up under mandate of IGF and recommendations in Guterres's Roadmap for Digital Cooperation

India’s IT Secretary appointed to high-level UN internet panel

PGurus Newsdesk - August 17, 2022 1

Kerala cadre IAS officer appointed to high-level UN internet panel India's Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Alkesh Kumar Sharma has been appointed to a panel...

The extreme poverty count fell from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 and the decline in rural areas was much higher than in urban areas

India’s extreme poverty sees a huge dip between 2011 to 2019

PGurus Newsdesk - April 18, 2022 0

India witnesses a sharp decline in poverty by 12.3 percentage points in 2019 than 2011 According to the World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, India’s...

The IMF released a paper presenting the estimates of poverty and consumption inequality in India through the pandemic years

IMF report says India’s food security scheme helped avert extreme poverty during pandemic

PGurus Newsdesk - April 6, 2022 0

IMF lauds Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana for averting extreme poverty Crediting the successful implementation of India’s food security programme — Pradhan Mantri Garib...

Poverty and this year’s Nobel prize in economics

Sudip Bhattacharyya - November 16, 2019 0

Nobel laureates have adapted RCT, a tool of medical science to development economics, which has reportedly yielded a better result in the identification and...

Modi Lifts Millions Out of Poverty – PART II

Naagesh Padmanaban - June 4, 2018 0

In an earlier piece, the groundwork laid by Modi in his first four years in office was analyzed. PM Modi's important achievement was the creation...

India: Purging poverty through growth will be model for developing world

Author - October 21, 2015 0

PerformanceGurus Staff United Nations, Oct 20 India's success in eradicating poverty through sustained economic growth will be a model for other developing countries, the...

India’s Foreign Secretary expresses serious concern over China’s mischief

India concerned about changes in Afghanistan. China’s attempts have seriously disturbed peace and tranquillity...

Team PGurus - September 20, 2021 0

Foreign Secretary Shringla: China's attempts to alter status quo in Ladakh region seriously disturbed peace in border areas As a neighbour of Afghanistan, India is...