Director Karla Murthy and producer Rajal Pitroda talk about all that went into the making of their celebrated documentary The ...

When the Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature were announced last year, a big underdog made the cut: Writing with Fire. The film lacked both a major U.S. distributor and streaming partner.

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

According to the 2023-24 fractile distribution, the poverty rate in rural areas has dropped to 4.86 per cent, while urban areas report an even lower figure of 4.09 per cent. A report by the State Bank ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of ...

In 2019, when I took the stage with director Rayka Zehtabchi to accept the Academy Award for documentary short subject for “Period. End of Sentence,” I held the Oscar high and declared “a period ...

India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given ...

Almost fifteen years ago, India measured poverty by a simple metric: how much money a person spent. The Rangarajan Committee’s subsequent report in 2014 defined poverty as the condition of living on ...