What Sierra Leone teaches us on poverty measurement

The latest Global Multidimensional Poverty Index says this least developed country reduced overall poverty and deprivations fastest in the world …

After selling a minor girl to buy food, a prime ministerial visit, India’s face of poverty is drowned in debt

Phanas Punji’s next generations have the same level of poverty in what is called inter-generational chronic poverty

For basic needs

12 Maharashtra villages want to join Telengana

Forget 2022, more than 110 million Indians would remain poor forever

The next generation of the current poor Indians has high probability of remaining poor as well. Lack of access to resources like forests and …

Nepal's biotech vision

Development pool

Breaking the cycle of poverty: Financial freedom for tribal women

For tribal communities, financial freedom translates into financial literacy, with which comes the access to various government safety nets and rights

Who is economically secular?

The rich have the chance to get richer in an economic crisis while the poor face the prospect of sinking deeper in poverty

Washed away

The draft National Environment Policy has little on coast management

Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s

Poverty is likely to increase dramatically in middle-income developing countries in Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines

How India remains poor: Nine billionaires own as much as half the people

India protests against rising Inequality

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

Simply Put: Happy Halloween

The hunger syndrome

When hunger stalks, politics and bureaucracy only bring mayhem

Employment plan

Why Dashrath Manjhi’s feat should be celebrated more than Pichai’s and Nadella’s

A cynical comparison between two unequal worlds

Human rights and poverty eradication: A Talisman for the Commonwealth

High-yield variety

Bamboo is key to rural growth

Drumming it in

Should local communities pay for Western notions of 'global benefit'?

Bhukh chala gaya, dukh nahi: The new hunger problem stalking India’s poorest region

Government schemes have brought food to people in Koraput, Kalahandi and Bastar; but they still do not have sustainable livelihoods

Three brackets to Johannesburg

An inconclusive Bali PrepCom meet only takes confusion and procrastination to Rio +10

Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development

In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …

Street smart

Karnataka vendors take steps to protect their interests