A new report from the United Nations indicates India has made great strides in helping to get its citizens out of poverty: Between 2006 and 2016, the percentage of India's population in what's known ...

India has seen a remarkable drop in extreme poverty over the past decade, with the rate falling sharply from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 to just 5.3 per cent in recent years. This improvement comes even ...

Growth is not the sole objective of economic policy. It is necessary to ensure that the benefits of growth accrue to all sections. Eradication of poverty is thus an important objective. The objective ...