Deepening green tech divide between Global North, South to worsen economic inequality, warns UN

Without decisive action by governments, developing countries may miss out on economic opportunities from green tech

Southern Africa most unequal region on the continent: Report

Top 10% of society in the region took the lion’s share of the national income, whereas the bottom 40% took just 4%

World Bank report paints contrasting picture of African economy

While poverty may be lower than what current estimates suggest, the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased since 1990

Youth health crisis: Alarming rise in unhealthy habits, poor diets in European teens, warns WHO

Fewer than two in five adolescents eat fruits or vegetables daily; teens from low-income families at higher risk

As told to Parliament (February 13, 2023): Climate change likely to pull down wheat yield by 6-25% in 2100, says minister

Rainfed rice yields in India are projected to reduce marginally

Monkeypox mortality high in Africa where vaccine remains out of reach

Fewer new cases in last 2 weeks but distribution pattern has changed  

Richest 1% emitted as much as poorest 66%, enough to cause 1.3 million heat deaths: Oxfam report

Annual global emissions of the super-rich 1% was cancelling out the carbon savings from almost a million onshore wind turbines, it shows

Gender gaps in agricultural sector cost Nigeria dearly

Report estimated forgone earnings from the gender gap in agricultural productivity at $2.3 billion annually

25 years of Kudumbashree: How this Kerala women’s collective intervened to empower women, fight poverty

Whenever Kerala plunged into a deep crisis, be it floods or the pandemic, Kudumbashree has been there with the state and its people through thick …

Why inequality is India’s worst enemy

India’s per capita gross domestic product increased five times between 2000 and 2019. The income, however, is concentrated only in a few …

Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse

Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group

It is unhealthy to be a woman in India

The 2018 Global Gender Gap report ranks India at a dismal 108 out of 149 countries; and in the South Asian region, India …

Six ways to improve HIV prevention pill uptake among young women in Zimbabwe

15-19-year-old girls in sub-Saharan Africa highly vulnerable to new infections

Abandonment, poverty, sexual exploitation: Why Indian women pay a higher price for climate crisis

Women have limited ability to overcome climate shocks compared to their male counterparts: It is an uneven playing field. But a gradual …

Almost all states in red zone on gender equality: NITI Aayog

Latest report by think tank says that women and girls in the country experience inequalities in every aspect of life

Hurun India Rich List: Malnourished and the multi-billionaires

The rich will only get richer, irrespective of the poor getting richer or not

International Women’s Day 2024: How much unpaid labour do Indian women take on?

In both urban and rural areas, girls and women aged 6+ were several times more likely than boys and men to do care work and especially domestic work

FAO: Closing gender gap in agri-food systems can boost global economy by $1 trillion

Tackling gender inequality can reduce world hunger and reinforce resilience to shocks like climate change and COVID-19 pandemic

Women, on average, enjoy barely 77% of legal rights that men do: World Bank

World Bank’s ‘Women, Business and the Law Index’ says that women just entering the workforce will retire before they enjoy the …

Women work harder than men — our anthropological study reveals why

Perfect sex equality in workload only occurs in instances where men move away from home after marriage and women do not

Witch hunting: 83% of Odisha's cases in six districts, says report

Most of the victims were targeted for “causing health issues or crop failure”

No way of knowing progress of 74% gender-related SDGs

Data is available on only 26 per cent of 85 gender indicators, says the first review of the status of women and girls in the Asia Pacific

Gender equality: India ranked 101 among 136 countries

Country rated lower still at 135 when it comes to ensuring health and survival of its women

Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety

When boards had just one female director, seriously defective products such as cardiac stents and breast implants were not recalled more quickly

'Dissatisfaction with quality of life triggered Arab Spring'

Standard development indicators failed to predict the outburst of anger in the spring of 2011, says a World Bank report