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

The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore

The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …

Not a bankable strategy

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

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

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 …

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

DRDA faces axe

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

‘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 …

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

The poverty quibble

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

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

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty  

Reason to cheer

Meet two pioneering grassroots leaders nominated for the Equator Initiative Awards

Another dismissal is possible

Food aid comes a cropper

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

A promising pathway

Rio+20, green economy and India

Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs