At present, India measures poverty in terms of deprivation ... Interestingly, the World Bank definition of extreme poverty ...

Singh took over as the finance minister when the economy was close to sovereign default, and completely altered its course ...

She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 ...