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 ...

More than one billion people are living in acute poverty across the globe ... so that any ensuing peace actually endures," Alkire added. India was the country with the largest number of people ...

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 ...

Another significant element of India's population challenge is gender inequality, with Muttreja referring to this as "the ...

Real progress has been made in reducing poverty in recent years, particularly in India and China. However ... Attacking Poverty shows that the number of people living on less than $1 a day grew from 1 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took jabs at Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal during ...

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 ...

But it is tackling major social, economic and environmental issues, including a huge gap between the wealthy and those living in poverty. Save the Children has worked in India since the 1940s, setting ...