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 ...

New Delhi:In a significant feat under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visionary government, India has made key strides in the last decade in reducing its extreme poverty rate, which fell to 5.3 per ...

India has more cattle than China, the European Union, and the US combined. Livestock are central to our economy ...

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 ...