As per the Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty (also called the Rangarajan Committee…
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The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was created using a method developed by Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director, and James Foster,…
Please click here to access the key messages of the report entitled: Humanity divided: Confronting inequality in Developing Countries, UNDP (January, 2014). According…
Please click here to access the salient findings of 69th Round of NSS regarding Key Indicators of Urban Slums in India (July 2012…
According to the paper titled: “The State of the Poor: Where are the Poor and Where are the Poorest?” (2013) by Pedro…
According to the Press Note on Poverty Estimates, 2009-10, Planning Commission, March 2012, http://planningcommission.gov.in/news/press_pov1903.pdf: • The all-India head count ratio (HCR)…
Please click here to access the key findings of the Suresh Tendulkar Committee Report on poverty, which was submitted in 2009. According to…
KEY TRENDS • In 2018, India’s Human Development Index (HDI) ranking was 129th (HDI value 0.647) among 189 countries and UN recognized territories, while China’s…
According to the Human Development Report 2021-22: Uncertain times, unsettled lives — Shaping our future in a transforming world (released in…
According to the Human Development Report 2020: The next frontier — Human development and the Anthropocene (released in December 2020), which…