When people approach the Kerala Women’s Commission with complaints of neglect or harassment by their children or spouses, the problem is not always what it first appears to be. A growing number of ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

As Indian parliamentary elections approach, politicians’ promises resting on uplifting economic status of the poor will get more assertive and aggressive. As these promises become louder, headlines ...

As the much-vaunted “Spirit of Mumbai” took its annual pummelling from the monsoon this past week, one image perfectly captured the city’s talent for humbling the mighty. A Mercedes floated placidly ...

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...

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India’s poor pay way more tax in proportion to what the rich in the country pay – by way of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), said Mukulika Banerjee, Professor of Social Anthropology at the London ...