At farm's hand

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Lalit Mehta (Jharkhand)

Pick and choose

MP High Court orders removal of names from BPL list

Stories of success and failure

Committee asks for professionalism in CAPART

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

Poverty eradication - Why do we always fail?

The government plans to bring one crore households out of poverty by 2019. Such targets are announced each year, but why don’t they work?

Slum today, gone tomorrow

If the Union cabinet endorses a recent decision of the group of ministers, about 35,000 shanties will have to be removed from Mumbai's Santa Cruz …

Science against poverty

"Salwa Judum is peaceful. We support it"

NREGA’s technological sabbatical

Job cards of many to expire in 2011 and renewal would take time

A complement, not a substitute

Cash transfer is effective only if basic services are in place

Brazilian lessons for Modi

Dilma Rousseff's re-election as president is a lesson on facing development challenges in an unequal economy

How women seized NREGA

Poverty is ecological: We must accept income poverty is the wrong yardstick

Today, October 17, 2020, we observe the 27th anniversary of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at a time when the COVID-19 …

Budget 2017 Analysis with Sunita Narain

Centre for Science and Environment and Down to Earth analysed the 2017 Budget by Arun Jaitley. The major takeaway is that there is very little …

Gujarat v UPA: models of non-governance?

In defence of capitalism

Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense

A deal for votes

2013-14 might see expansion or monetisation of development schemes in run-up to election

Bring back the social sector, but not interventionist planning

Centre cuts foodgrain supply for Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana

India stopped counting poor; now the world in bind on how to achieve zero poverty by 2030

World Bank’s latest poverty report highlights how absence of poverty data in India — junked by the government last year — …

More bite, less to chew

The most controversial aspect of the food security law is the restructuring of the public distribution system to cover an unprecedented 67 per …

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line