India needs to work more to address poverty: FAO
India, the world's second largest wheat and rice grower, needs to make speedier progress towards reducing the number of hungry people, a top official of the UN food agency FAO said Monday.
Sep 08, 2014, 17:32 PM IST
Black money won't come back, if it does, would fuel inflation: Lord Parekh
Renowned political theorist Lord Bhiku Parekh Monday said that it was not easy to bring the black money back to the country, and even if that happened, it would not alleviate the poverty but increase the inflation.
Sep 01, 2014, 23:06 PM IST
FM hints at sops to increase savings
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday called for cutting down subsidy outgo.
Aug 16, 2014, 13:21 PM IST
Poverty, food price and inflation a major concern: Pranab Mukherjee
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said poverty, food price and inflation were still a major concern in the economic development of India and that it was the decisive challenge of our time to end the curse of poverty.
Aug 14, 2014, 19:30 PM IST
More than 2.2 billion people 'poor or near-poor': UN
More than 2.2 billion people are "poor or near-poor", with financial crises, natural disasters, soaring food prices and violent conflicts threatening to exacerbate the problem, a United Nations report said Wednesday.
Jul 24, 2014, 18:45 PM IST
Rangarajan panel report on poverty attacked by parties
The Rangarajan Committee, which has suggested a new benchmark for describing poverty, Monday came under sharp attack from political parties, which said it amounted to "mocking at the poor" and makes neither "common sense" nor "economic sense".
Jul 07, 2014, 20:09 PM IST
Rangarajan defends poverty estimates; says meet global norms
Defending his calculation that three out of 10 in India are poor, former PMEAC Chairman C Rangarajan Monday said poverty numbers provided by him are not conservative estimates and they are at par with global standards.
Jul 07, 2014, 20:06 PM IST
3 out of 10 in India are poor: Rangarajan panel
A panel headed by former PMEAC Chairman C Rangarajan has dismissed the Tendulkar Committee report on estimating poverty and said that the number of poor in India was much higher in 2011-12 at 29.5 percent of the population, which means that three out of 10 persons are poor.
Jul 07, 2014, 02:44 AM IST
Poverty definition immaterial for financial services: Rajan
As the debate over the definition of poverty continues, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan Wednesday said descriptions don't matter when it comes to financial services, which are unavailable for a large number of people.
Jul 02, 2014, 18:16 PM IST
Rangarajan panel submits report on poverty to PlanComm
Former PMEAC chief C Rangarajan has submitted the report on Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty to Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh.
Jul 01, 2014, 14:31 PM IST
Rangarajan panel report on poverty today
The Planning Commission in May 2012 had constituted the expert group to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty, following an uproar over the number of poor in the country.
Jun 30, 2014, 09:19 AM IST
Rangarajan panel report on poverty on July 1
The Planning Commission in May 2012 had constituted the expert group to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty.
Jun 27, 2014, 19:04 PM IST
G77 plus China eye end to poverty by 2030, new UN role
A summit of G77 leaders plus China wrapped up Sunday with a call for an end to poverty by 2030.
Jun 16, 2014, 05:30 AM IST
Committed to lowering prices, will ensure no one sleeps hungry: PM
Addressing the Parliament, Modi said his government was sincerely committed to bringing down prices and that it was their collective responsibility to ensure nobody sleeps hungry.
Jun 11, 2014, 16:41 PM IST
UPA govt left the economy in shambles and "elevated" poverty: Jaitley
Government on Tuesday said the previous UPA had left the country in "shambles" with low growth and "elevated" poverty and asserted the strong leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help correct the situation as per people's expectations.
Jun 10, 2014, 21:53 PM IST
