The report employs the Small Area Estimation (SAE) technique, a statistical approach widely used internationally to improve the precision of estimates for smaller administrative units.

There's a little bit of confusion over India's GDP growth statistics at present. The country recently changed the way that it calculates this number and while there are, obviously, the usual teething ...

NEW DELHI—India surprised economists Friday evening by ratcheting up its official economic-expansion figure for the previous fiscal year, marking it as a year of sharp recovery rather than continuing ...

WASHINGTON DC, March 11, 2020 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $30 million project to support the Government of India’s efforts at strengthening and modernizing its ...

India's statistics ministry is set to overhaul the housing index compilation for the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Rent data ...

India has recorded a dramatic decline in extreme poverty over the past decade, emerging as a global statistical outlier in a positive direction, according to a new World Bank report. The country's ...

NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India won re-election last week with what seemed to be rousing support for his market-oriented economic policies — yet few in India can agree on just how ...