Poverty estimates have long been a political battleground in India. The recent Multidimensional Poverty Index findings have been critiqued not just for methodological flaws but also for potentially ...

The multidimensional poverty index computed by the Niti Aayog suffers from several methodological shortcomings as well as wrong or improper selections of indicators. The most glaring mistake in the ...

(The co-author, Bibek Debroy, passed away on November 1 at the age of 69. This is his last column for NDTV, which he submitted on October 21. His other columns can be found here) The Global ...

Acute poverty in Telangana has shown a sharp decline over the past one decade, the National Multidimensional Poverty Index of Niti Aayog shows. The headcount of people living in acute poverty is ...