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 ...

“So many people live very risky lives. Which is why I keep harping on the phenomenon of falling into poverty because in India, it is big; and until we control it, we can’t control overall ...

A lot of people are migrating from rural areas to metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore due to poverty and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the country has elevated 250 million people out of poverty in India. He was ...

with more than 770 million people living in highly dangerous conditions at least two weeks a year. Because of its growing wealth and increasingly prosperous middle class, India will have the ...

The “living wage” concept was endorsed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) – of which India earlier is a founding member and a permanent member of its governing body – earlier ...

Real progress has been made in reducing poverty in recent years, particularly in India and China. However, there is still much uncertainty about ... The first table of the World Bank's World ...