Indian officials say social benefits will not be limited to those who make less than 50 cents a day in rural areas and 66 cents a day in urban areas. Planning Commission head Montek Singh Ahluwalia said Monday that government entitlements should go beyond the controversial poverty benchmark proposed last month by the federal government. […]
India Rethinks Controversial Poverty Benchmark
Posted October 3rd, 2011 at 10:45 am (UTC-5)
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India Sets Poverty Level At Less Than 50 Cents a Day
Posted September 21st, 2011 at 7:41 am (UTC-5)
Indian authorities say those who earn at least 50 cents a day make enough to live on, and are not poor. The Planning Commission told the Supreme Court Tuesday that anyone with a daily income of over 50 cents in villages or 65 cents in cities should not be eligible for government assistance. The commission […]
Recession Boosts US Poverty Rate
Posted September 13th, 2011 at 11:12 am (UTC-5)
The recession raised the percentage of people living in poverty in the United States in 2010 to the highest level in seventeen years. Tuesday’s report from the Census Bureau says the poverty rate was just over 15 percent, an increase of seven-tenths of a percent from the prior year. That totals up to just over […]
Recession Boosts US Poverty Rate
Posted September 13th, 2011 at 10:52 am (UTC-5)
The recession raised the percentage of people living in poverty in the United States in 2010 to the highest level in seventeen years. Tuesday’s report from the Census Bureau says the poverty rate was just over 15 percent, an increase of seven-tenths of a percent from the prior year. That totals up to just over […]
Survey: US Child Poverty Increases in 38 States
Posted August 17th, 2011 at 1:10 pm (UTC-5)
A new survey shows that child poverty in the United States increased in 38 states in the last decade, as the economy fell into recession. The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual survey says 20 percent of all children in the U.S. were poor in 2009, up from 17 percent in 2000. It says the number […]
Japanese Poverty Rate Reaches New High
Posted July 13th, 2011 at 5:50 am (UTC-5)
The Japanese government says the nation’s poverty rate rose to a record 16 percent in 2009. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry says the figure is the highest since the government began to compile the data in 1985. The 2009 rate is 0.3 percentage points higher than the last previous survey in 2006. Japan’s poverty […]
UN Report: Poverty Rates Falling in Burma
Posted July 8th, 2011 at 7:50 am (UTC-5)
The United Nations Development Programme says progress has been made in reducing poverty rates in Burma. A survey of 18,660 households across Burma between 2009 and 2010 found that overall poverty and cases of people not having enough food in Burma had fallen by six percent from a similar study conducted from 2004 through 2005. […]
Bangladesh Poverty Level Falls
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 9:40 am (UTC-5)
Bangladesh’s government says the country’s poverty level fell to 31.5 percent in 2010 from 40 percent in 2005 — an 8.5 percent drop over five years. A report issued jointly with the World Bank on Wednesday says poverty in rural areas declined to 35.2 percent in 2010 from 43.8 percent in 2005, while urban poverty […]
