Pew Research – Matters India

COVID pushed 32 million Indians out of middle class: Pew research

On: March 19, 2021

Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of Indians in the middle class, or those earning between $10 andContinue Reading

‘Double suffering’ when women targeted also for religion

By: Matters India

On: March 8, 2017

In: Commentary

Olivia Jackson On International Women’s Day, one statistic you may not hear much is that 83% of global women identify with a religious faith. Pew Research asked people in 84 countries how often they pray; in half of them, substantially more women than men say they pray on a dailyContinue Reading