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"People in poverty reduced by 279 million, economy doubled": Hardeep Singh
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said that in the last 11 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, India has seen major development, with poverty levels falling sharply and the economy growing fast.
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Estimation of poverty on Earth possible from space: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Research led by the IIASA has come up with a method to estimate global poverty from space itself, using satellite images of Earth at night.
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Ananya Finance and Prayas Microfinance join hands to lower poverty levels
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 8 (ANI/SRV): Impact lender, Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth Pvt Ltd, one of the NBFCs of India is set to expand its span of operation by joining hands with Prayas Financial Services Pvt Ltd, a Micro Finance company. Ananya has announced acquiring a majority stake i
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Study reveals your neighbourhood may affect your brain health
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 20 (ANI): Middle-age and older people living in more disadvantaged neighbourhoods -- areas with higher poverty levels and fewer educational and employment opportunities--had more brain shrinkage on brain scans and showed a faster decline on cognitive tests than people
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Lockdown measures worsening poverty and vulnerabilities among informal eco
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 9 (ANI): The Covid-19 lockdown and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world's informal economy workers by as much as 56 percentage points in low-income countries, according to a new briefing paper issued by the International
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