"People in poverty reduced by 279 million, economy doubled": Hardeep Singh Puri on 11 years of Modi government

Jun 09, 2025

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said that in the last 11 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, India has seen major...

Ananya Finance and Prayas Microfinance join hands to lower poverty levels and empower rural women entrepreneurs

Jul 08, 2022

New Delhi [India] July 8 (ANI/SRV): Impact lender, Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth Pvt Ltd, one of the NBFCs of India is set to...

World Bank chief highlights 'tragic reversal' in development amid pandemic

Oct 14, 2021

Washington [US], October 14 (ANI/Xinhua): World Bank Group President David Malpass said on Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing up poverty and debt...

Individual bad decisions cannot explain economic inequalities: Study

Jul 03, 2023

Study discovers that economic inequality on a social level cannot be explained by poor people making bad decisions or rich people making good decisions....

Lockdown measures worsening poverty and vulnerabilities among informal economy workers: ILO

May 09, 2020

Geneva [Switzerland], May 9 : The Covid-19 lockdown and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world's informal economy workers by...

Hexagon Nutrition and ASSOCHAM in collaboration with GAIN bring Severe Acute malnutrition at the center-stage of the national agenda

Oct 05, 2020

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 5 (ANI/NewsVoir): Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is one of the hardest forms of malnutrition in children. There is increasing concern...