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Top 10 poorest economies by GDP per capita in 2025
March 06, 2025 3:01 pm
Poorest Global Economies By GDP Per Capita 2025: India, even though being the world’s fifth-largest economy, faces a notable difference in GDP per capita, ranking in the bottom 100 countries with a GDP per capita of $11.94 thousand as of 2025.
Knowledge Nugget of the day: Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
November 01, 2024 9:49 am
2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index highlights that India is among the five countries with the largest population of people living in poverty. Here’s all that you must know about the index beyond just data.
Arvind Panagariya’s new paper: ‘After pandemic, poverty kept falling every quarter from July-Sept 2020’
April 04, 2023 10:58 am
According to the paper, it is only during the strict lockdown period of April-June 2020 that rural poverty saw a “modest rise”. But it fell for the full year 2019-20, even if at a significantly lower rate. It witnessed a sharp decline in 2020-21 as in the pre-Covid year of 2018-19.
COVID-19 could push extreme poverty to over 1 billion by 2030: UN
December 06, 2020 12:28 pm
"Severe long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could push an additional 207 million people into extreme poverty on top of the current pandemic trajectory, bringing the total to over 1 billion by 2030," noted the study.
No Small Plan: Amid pandemic, Australian consumer brand Thankyou is looking to tackle global poverty
November 02, 2020 5:30 pm
'I think sometimes companies feel like they can't do enough, but even the smallest step forward followed by another one, will lead to great change over time.'
Africa's rapid population growth puts poverty progress at risk: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
September 18, 2018 2:27 pm
"The conclusion is clear: To continue improving the human condition, our task now is to help create opportunities in Africa's fastest-growing, poorest countries," Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in the introduction of the report.
More than 700 million workers living in poverty in emerging and developing countries: ILO
April 21, 2018 2:01 pm
The ILO estimates that 67 million young women and men are unemployed globally, and around 145 million young workers in emerging and developing countries live in extreme or moderate poverty.
Stop UK aid to India and help Britons suffering from flood instead, says UK MP
February 09, 2014 9:35 pm
UK MP Nigel Farage tells the government to stop UK aid to India and asks it to spend that money to help flood-hit Britain.
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