Can India reduce food wastage with community refrigerators?
Community refrigerators have helped reduce food wastage in the UAE, Germany and France. India too can popularise and scale up the initiative
World's poor mostly reside in ecologically fragile areas
Looking at how poverty has reduced and where, it is clear that economic growth alone will not lead to poverty eradication. Global efforts must …
Unequal India:101 billionaires thrive; 364 million poor struggle to survive
About 27.5 per cent of India’s population is multidimensionally poor and 8.6 per cent of the country’s people live in extreme …
Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh poorest in the country: Global report
About 76.5 per cent of the people in the district are poor
Poverty and emergencies keep children out of school
Every one in five children in the world are not in school, says the latest UNICEF report
Africa to house 86% of the world’s poorest by 2050
Population growth in Africa is a major reason for high concentration of people living in extreme poverty, says a report
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Does poverty trigger extremism?
Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism
The world will miss the SDG target 1, a poverty-free world
1.6 people should escape poverty every second but currently just 1.1 are doing so. Worryingly, by 2020, the rate of poverty reduction would …
Govt wishes to achieve healthcare goals by spending Rs 3 a day?
According to the latest National Health Profile, India is one of the countries with the lowest public health spending
'Energy poverty hurts women'
Women's participation should be considered while making policy on access to energy and management, says an expert
From living in a mud house to a fixed roof, this Malawian farmer knows the value of climate-smart agriculture
Grace Manda from Malawi never thought a climate-resilient method of farming could help her build a fixed roof, send her kids to school, that …