India has recorded a sharp decline in poverty over the last decade, the World Bank stated this in its latest report “Poverty & Equity Brief,” showing that extreme poverty fell to 2.3% in 2022–23, down ...

India-based civil society organisation Shivi Development Society has called for a more practical and inclusive approach to ...

Many were surprised when the Chief Minister of India’s Kerala state announced on 1 November 2025 that the state had eliminated extreme poverty. While debates over definition and measurement ensued, ...

On Nov. 1, the southern Indian state of Kerala will be officially declared the first among the nation’s 28 states to be “free of extreme poverty.” This is a remarkable achievement, experts say, as the ...

Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly ...