Please click here to access the key messages of the report entitled: Humanity divided: Confronting inequality in Developing Countries, UNDP (January, 2014). According to the report entitled: From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services (2014), produced by McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) (please click here to download the report): • The Empowerment Line prepared by McKinsey…
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Please click here to access the salient findings of 69th Round of NSS regarding Key Indicators of Urban Slums in India (July 2012 to December 2012). Please click here to download the full report Key Indicators of Urban Slums in India, NSS 69th Round, July 2012-December 2012, MoSPI. Please click here to access the 32nd report by the Standing Committee on Finance…
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According to the paper titled: “The State of the Poor: Where are the Poor and Where are the Poorest?” (2013) by Pedro Olinto and Hiroki Uematsu, using data released in the latest World Development Indicators,http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/State_of_the_poor_paper_April17.pdf: • India accounts for one-third (up from 22 percent in 1981) of the world poor in 2010 and China comes next contributing…
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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) has declined by 7.3 percentage points from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 29.8% in 2009-10, with rural poverty declining by 8.0 percentage points from 41.8% to 33.8% and urban poverty declining by 4.8 percentage points from…
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Please click here to access the key findings of the Suresh Tendulkar Committee Report on poverty, which was submitted in 2009. According to the 11th Five-Year Plan of the Planning Commissionhttp://www.planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/11th/11_v3/11v3_ch4.pdf: • India has successfully reduced the share of the poor in the population by 27.4 percentage points from 54.9 in 1973 to 27.5 in 2004. Between 1973 and…
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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 ranking was 85th (HDI value 0.758), Sri Lanka’s 71st (HDI value 0.780), Bhutan’s 134th (HDI value 0.617), Bangladesh’s 135th (HDI value 0.614) and Pakistan’s 152th (HDI value 0.560) *8 • In 2017, India’s Human Development Index…
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According to the Human Development Report 2021-22: Uncertain times, unsettled lives — Shaping our future in a transforming world (released in September 2022), which has been produced by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (please click here, here, here, here and here to access): Human Development • The 2021-22 Human Development Report presents the 2021 HDI (values and ranks) for 191 countries and UN-recognized…
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According to the Human Development Report 2020: The next frontier — Human development and the Anthropocene (released in December 2020), which has been produced by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (please click here, here, here, here, here and here to access): Human Development • The 2020 Human Development Report presents the 2019 HDI (values and ranks) for 189 countries and UN-recognized territories, along with the Inequality-adjusted…
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According to the report entitled Human Development Report 2019: Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century (released in December 2019), which has been produced by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (please click here, here, here, here and here to access): Human Development • In 2018, India’s Human Development Index (HDI) ranking was 129th (HDI value 0.647)…
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