New Delhi: Rural poverty in India has seen a remarkable decline. It dropped below 5 per cent for the first time in 2023-24 according to SBI Research. Increased rural spending played a key role in this ...

SBI research shows that MGNREGA now covers only a small fraction of rural household expenditure, making its impact on poverty almost nonexistent The impact of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the strongest ...

Can data really define poverty in India? The numbers certainly suggest progress. Fewer people live below the international poverty line. More people have access to food, jobs, electricity, and housing ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional. They involve, among other things, culture, climate, gender, markets, and public policy. Likewise, the rural poor are quite diverse both in ...