It’s been a landmark year for Safeena Husain, the founder of Educate Girls, a Mumbai-based nonprofit that has helped more than 2 million girls in some of India’s most remote villages get back into the ...

NEW DELHI: India’s non-profit, Educate Girls, has been named a 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee — Asia’s premier honour — becoming the first Indian organisation to receive the prize. Founded in 2007, the ...

When Educate Girls became the first Indian organisation to win the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the honour recognised more than a single campaign. It celebrated two decades of steady labour: village by ...

Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings.

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 ...

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 ...