Extreme Poverty

India has highest number of persons living in poverty: UN report

Across 112 countries, 1.1 billion persons live in acute multidimensional poverty, according to the 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index report.

Scroll Staff
· Oct 20, 2024 · 01:10 pm
For India’s poor, more children means worse deprivation

Educating women improves the situation, but only slightly.

Sana Ali, IndiaSpend.com
· Jul 10, 2019 · 01:30 pm
Two decades on, a reporter revisits son who lost his mother to hunger – and finds little has changed

In 1996, Balmati Naik died in Barlabaheli village in Odisha. A writer visits her only child, Gundhar, and traces his struggle.

Purusottam Thakur
· Oct 26, 2016 · 05:30 am

670 million people in rural India live on Rs 33 per day

The SECC figures come at a time when global credit rating agencies have warned that slow growth in rural India may cripple the overall economy.

Saumya Tewari, IndiaSpend.com
· Jul 14, 2015 · 10:30 pm