Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed the bill on rural employment an insult to the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, as he ...

Rahul Gandhi decries a new bill replacing MGNREGA as an affront to Mahatma Gandhi's ideals, accusing the Modi government of ...

India proposes legislation to expand its rural employment scheme, increasing guaranteed workdays from 100 to 125 per ...

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 ...

Growth over the last decade has been "broad-based" and the consumption gap among the rich and poor in both urban and rural ...

MGNREGA was initially enacted as NREGA in 2005, with its intellectual and policy roots in the earlier efforts of the 1990s.

In India, talking about money is still uncomfortable. People are hesitant to disclose income, especially if it’s informal, ...

NABARD’s Rural Economic Conditions and Sentiments Survey is conducted every two months across all regions of India.

Clearly, the restructuring of the rural employment guarantee scheme is a step in the right direction. The introduction of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 2005 ...

Small loans help rural women boost their incomes Loan sharks traditionally dominate village credit markets Microfinance, financial literacy fight informal lenders NARELA, India, Dec 7 (Thomson Reuters ...