Washed away

The draft National Environment Policy has little on coast management

New leader, old challenge

India’s first PM born after Independence will face the old problem of poverty eradication

Kalam's kaleidoscpoe

Intellectualising poverty

Technology for the poor

Wasteland maps can help frame poverty alleviation programmes

Feeble Rights

Rights-based governance has not been accompanied by effective delivery mechanism

Why people want to be poor

Crisis in Chhattisgarh over implementation of food security law has crucial lessons for India's public distribution system

Achieve development

The market, simply, cannot be left alone

Job growth statistics conceal agrarian crisis

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Narayan Hareka (Orissa)

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

Pick and choose

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

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

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

Lean, mean scheme

Budget to start process of reforming Central rural schemes, 45 years after first demand

Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

Should NABARD regulate micro-finance?

Will welfare schemes win votes for UPA?

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Why only panchayats?

Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

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

US, China count their poor afresh. India looks away