India’s extreme poverty rate declines from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23: World Bank
In contrast, nearly 45% of Pakistan's population lives in poverty, with 16.5% classified as living in extreme poverty, as per the report.
In contrast, nearly 45% of Pakistan's population lives in poverty, with 16.5% classified as living in extreme poverty, as per the report.
Hunger is a common physiological phenomenon. It is measured by the prevalence of undernourishment i.e. an individual’s habitual consumption of inadequate food.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has made a commitment to eradicate poverty from UP in the next three years and to make the state number one in the country.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma took on the Congress and its leadership for "keeping in illusion poor people for decades on their poverty alleviation plank".
This contributes to 62.2 per cent of the country's total poor population of around 900,000 people.
A recent paper by the Brookings Institution’s Stuart M. Butler and Nehath Sheriff underlines the impact of the US’ Housing First program, which shows that providing stable housing can improve the efficacy of psychiatric and substance abuse treatment as well as aid in connecting individuals to social services.
The World Bank projected a growth rate of 6.5 per cent for the Indian economy for the fiscal year 2022-23, a drop of one per cent from its previous June 2022 projections, citing the deteriorating international environment.
Families experiencing economic hardships may have severe difficulty in adequately caring for their children and eventually this leads to their abandonment.
She has been with her current employer since 2005 and has seen her monthly wage increase from P3,500 to P12,000 a month. Still, Rosalyn complains that her earnings are never enough.
“The pandemic wiped out more than four years of progress on poverty eradication and pushed 93 million more people into extreme poverty in 2020. It has disrupted essential health services, resulting in a drop in immunization coverage for the first time in a decade and a rise in deaths from tuberculosis and malaria, among many other impacts. Prolonged school closures put 24 million learners from pre-primary to university levels at risk of not returning to school.”
