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Every Friday,PlainFacts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, complete with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by. The Sensex surpassed the…

Around 135 million Indians exited ‘multidimensional poverty’, a measure of deprivation beyond money, between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the Niti Aayog says. The basis of calculation is the National Family Health Survey…

India has made remarkable progress in its fight against multidimensional poverty, according to the latest report released by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog). The report, titled 'National Multidimensional Poverty…

NITI Aayog on Monday said 135 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty in five years with the proportion of poor in the country down from 24.8% to 14.9% between 2015-16 and 2019-21, on the back of improvements in nutrition,…

Rural areas in India witnessed the fastest decline in poverty from 32.59 per cent to 19.28 per cent between 2015-16 and 2019-20, according to a Niti Aayog report.Multidimensional Poverty: India has registered a significant decline of 9.89…

Providing access to housing, debt, and benefit advice within food banks could help lift people out of poverty -- according to a University of East Anglia study. Researchers worked with Norwich Foodbank centres, part of the Trussell Trust,…

Every Friday,PlainFacts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, complete with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by. North India has been…

Since July 2023, people’s tables in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan have become increasingly empty. Now, people can no longer afford basic staples like flour. Bread shortages and hours-long queues outside…