Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Parties steal Congress show

BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh enacts its own food security law, non-Congress states to follow

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

Gujarat announces Rs 13-crore scheme for state's poor

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

DRDA faces axe

District Rural Development Agency in conflict with Constitution; committee suggests its abolition

India lifted 271 mln people out of poverty in 10 yrs, claims govt report

The poverty estimates used to back the claims, however, are decade old

Sure cure: how to tackle India's undernutrition crisis in 10 steps

The finance ministry and the planning department can play an overarching role by ensuring health programmes get sufficient resources

The poverty quibble

Government claims a huge drop in poverty numbers but critical indicators—health, malnutrition and wages—continue to be grim. So how …

Reason to cheer

Meet two pioneering grassroots leaders nominated for the Equator Initiative Awards

Food aid comes a cropper

Forgotten people Chambal's Bor Khedi villagers are still called the criminal tribe

Another dismissal is possible

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty  

Ministers fight over funding National Rainfed Area Authority

A promising pathway

Rio+20, green economy and India

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’

Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible

The politics of empty words

Nepal's poor carry it off

As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. …

'Social protection: a safety net for agricultural households'

In the run up to World Food Day on October 16, a Food and Agriculture Organization report focuses on the role of social protection in …

Prices rise, not hunger

People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO

Tackling poverty

INDIA: REDUCING POVERTY, ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT, A WORLD BANK COUNTRY STUDY·Oxford University Press·New Delhi·260 pages