With the release of new data from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), there is an opportunity to recalibrate ...

Similar rules have been formulated before to address the issue that social scientists blame on poverty, illiteracy, and ...

For 100 years, the two countries have followed different paths to accumulating human capital, with striking results.

PATNA: A poverty-stricken woman was forced to sell off her child for a paltry Rs 9,000 to repay her bank loan in Bihar’s ...

The correct information about how terrible the picture of poverty in the world  is revealed in a statistic. The situation in ...

Low wages keep tea garden workers in a cycle of poverty, which is pushing children out of school, and leading to cases of ...

Over half of those living in poverty are children. In Pakistan ... for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Together with India, these five countries account for nearly half, or 48.1% of the ...

Over 1.1 billion people are living in acute poverty, with India having the highest number. Approximately 584 million children are significantly affected. The report highlights the severe impact of ...

A daily labourer in Assam sold his 25-day-old infant for Rs 30,000. The Child Welfare Committee intervened and rescued the ...

United Nations – More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly ... with nearly half in five countries: India with 234 million impoverished ...

Half Are Children and Many in Conflict ... According to the index, 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half in five countries: India with 234 million impoverished people ...

India with 234 million impoverished people, Pakistan with 93 million, Ethiopia with 86 million, Nigeria with 74 million and ...