Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan highlights unprecedented advancements in rural development, citing schemes like PMGSY and PM Awas Yojana. The Economic Survey reflects significant poverty ...

The Economic Survey 2025-26 provides a detailed overview of poverty and inclusion, highlighting Indias rural transformation journey.

Recent government consumption data presents a worrying reality: rural households are spending more on gutkha than on ...

SBI research shows that MGNREGA now covers only a small fraction of rural household expenditure, making its impact on poverty almost nonexistent The impact of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural ...

Rural India’s arkestra dancers face poverty, harassment, and societal prejudice, with limited support and exposure, ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the strongest ...

The universal and unconditional nature of MGNREGA made it a lifeline for many. Last week, Parliament repealed the two-decade old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

A World Bank report reveals a dramatic decrease in extreme poverty in India, sparking a debate between the government and the Congress party.

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...