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India’s poverty rate plummeted from 27.1% to 5.3% in 11 years at revised $3-a-day line
NEW DELHI: India has recorded a dramatic decline in poverty, with the proportion of people living below the World Bank’s revised international poverty line of $3.00 per day (2021 Purchasing Power Parity, PPP) dropping from 27.1% in 2011 to…
Extreme poverty In India down to 5.3% in 2022-23: World Bank – Economy News
India’s extreme poverty fell to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12, a much sharper decline than in previous decades, the World Bank said, releasing updated data. Only 75.24 million were suffering extreme poverty in the country in…
EAC eyes bold reset with next five-year development blueprint
Dar es Salaam. The East African Community (EAC) has begun crafting its 7th Development Strategy for the period 2026/27–2030/31, a critical step towards recalibrating regional integration efforts in light of past shortfalls and shifting…
Ford Foundation, ONE Campaign leaders to deliver keynotes at Africa Impact Summit
Ford Foundation’s West Africa head, Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye, and the President/CEO of ONE Campaign, will headline the third Africa Impact Summit (AIS) scheduled to take place June 11–13 in…
IMD DG Mrutyunjay Mohapatra wins UN Sasakawa Award for disaster risk reduction
Bhubaneswar: Director General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, has received the prestigious United Nations Sasakawa Award-2025 for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Mohapatra, known…
India News | World Bank Team Visits North Tripura, Explores Prospects in Agarwood Sector: Official
Agartala, Jun 6 (PTI) A three-member World Bank team on Friday visited agarwood factories and interacted with growers in North Tripura's Kadamtala area to take stock of the agar sector and explore its prospects, an…
CBL, World Bank Validate Mainstream Climate Change into Liberia’s Financial Sector | Business
In a decisive step toward strengthening Liberia’s financial system against climate-related shocks, the…
Why we Must Put Ocean-Positive Solutions at the Heart of Global Development
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Labour told to scrap two-child benefit cap or risk ‘child poverty surging on their…
Labour has been told to abolish the two-child benefit cap or risk "seeing hunger, hardship and child poverty rise", a leading food bank provider has warned.The Trussell Trust hailed news that all children in England whose parents receive…