Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than $3.65 a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank in its Poverty Macro Update on Bangladesh. Released as part of the South Asia Development Update on Tuesday, the report said half a million … Read more
India has managed to bring down ‘extreme poverty’ below 3 per cent of its population, latest data on the World Poverty Clock showed. This could mean achieving significant milestone in the direction of first of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), as prescribed by United Nations with a timeline of 2030. “Extreme Poverty is now eliminated … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the country will emerge as the third largest economy in the world in coming years. “This will be achieved in my third term and this is Modi’s Guarantee,” Modi said at a Global Business Summit organised by a private TV channel in the Capital. “You are already … Read more