How do you define poverty? Is poverty being underestimated in India? P.C. Mohanan: We had a stable definition of poverty from the late 1970s to 2005. We started with the expenditure required for ...

The paper highlights issues with the methodology adopted by the GoI, which estimates poverty at just 5% based on "positive ...

Is poverty being underestimated in India? Here we discuss the question. Guests: P.C. Mohanan, former member of the National Statistical Commission; N.R. Bhanumurthy, Director of the Madras School ...

But it is tackling major social, economic and environmental issues, including a huge gap between the wealthy and those living in poverty. Save the Children has worked in India since the 1940s, setting ...

New Delhi, Along with the sharp decline in poverty in India, there has also been a marked reduction in the rural-urban income divide in the country, according to an SBI Research analysis of a ...