India's sharp decline in poverty contrasts with Pakistan's deepening crisis, highlighting the impact of governance and economic policies, according to the World Bank.

India's extreme poverty rate fell from 27.1% in 2012 to 5.3% in 2022, lifting 269 million out of poverty. In contrast, Pakistan's extreme poverty rose from 4.9% in 2017 to 16.5% in 2021, with ...

An author and president of a think tank, India Foundation, his latest book is The New World: 21st Century Global Order and ...

On March 17, India’s Ministry of External Affairs revealed that out of 194 Indian fishermen currently imprisoned in Pakistan, 123 are from Gujarat. According to the Indian government, it has 81 ...

As of FY25, Pakistan’s defence expenditure is 2.3 per cent of their GDP – exceeding those of India (1.9 per cent), China (under 1.5 per cent) and the European Union (about 1.9 per cent).

In conclusion, Hirway calls for a reassessment of India’s poverty metrics: “Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon. A ...

India’s economy is now 11 times the size of Pakistan’s, and it has lifted 170 million out of poverty over the past decade. Yet India’s capacity to bear the human cost of Pakistan’s ...

The World Bank, in its report titled "Poverty Projections for Pakistan," noted a 25.3 percent poverty rate in 2024, up by 7 percentage points from 2023, pushing an additional 13 million people ...

Given India's inflation rate between 2017 and 2021, a revised extreme poverty line of USD 3 would constitute a 15 per cent higher threshold than USD 2.15 expressed in 2021 prices and result in a 5 ...

Many of the world’s nations are gathering starting Monday in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap ...