Hyderabad: The state government is now planning to merge the Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) ...
Congress criticizes the government for deleting 27 lakh MGNREGA workers, accusing it of undermining rural employment rights.
RBI’s October outlook noted, “Real GDP growth for 2025-26 is now projected at 6.8 per cent,” citing monsoon benefits, GST ...
Indian households are shifting spending from basic necessities to asset-building purchases like personal goods and appliances ...
Summarising the results on poverty in India reported in Panagariya and More (2014), it was noted that poverty declined significantly across social, religious, and economic groups, in both rural and ...
The Pioneer on MSN

Fifty shades of Indian poverty

Back in the 1980s when I was a post-graduate student pursuing economics at the Gokhale Institute in Pune, we were perhaps the ...
Highlighting the transformative role of education, Shri Kamlesh Paswan stated that education remains one of the strongest ...
UN ESCAP report warns rising heat stress puts India’s agriculture at high risk, threatening yields, livestock and rural livelihoods ...
A massive expansion of health centres and digital tools is underway, but India’s rising burden of obesity, diabetes, and ...
More than a billion Indians face heat waves every year. Hundreds of millions of them work in the informal sector, toiling ...
A significant transformation is occurring in Indian households, as families increasingly prioritize asset ownership and ...
DWBDNC will nurture DNT SHGs for the first 12 months, strengthening their financial literacy, group processes, and enterprise ...