Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Panchayats to get poverty alleviation funds

Food coupons for BPL families

PDS fails in feeding India's poor

Should NABARD regulate micro-finance?

Mumbai has 2.6 million fake ration cards

Why only panchayats?

Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively

IN SHORT

NREGA needs a paradigm shift

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Tribal women in Chattisgarh beat the poverty trap with fortunes from traditional medicines

Urban poor to get flats in multi-storeys

Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget

The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity

US, China count their poor afresh. India looks away

2006: The waterloo year

Ahead of polls, BPL politics in Chhattisgarh

Tax the wealthy: 2 billion people can be lifted from poverty by levying the super-rich, says Oxfam

Gap between the rich and the poor broadened over the past two years

Not a bankable strategy

World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator

Victim of its success

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

Parties steal Congress show

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

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

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

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

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty