Vietnam targets poverty with tourism
An ILO project generates job opportunities for local people in remote villages
War-Pandemic: World is poorer now; will double its poverty level on the target year of eradication
Poverty is getting concentrated and chronic in sub-Saharan Africa and rural areas
Diseases, lack of continuum of care perpetuating malnutrition among children: experts
Major gaps identifed by experts, include improper screening methods to identify malnourished children and treatment failures
India needs the ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan back
Anti-poverty programmes must be universal, not just on a below or above poverty line matrix
India is not prepared to tackle climate change impacts
Warming will slow down economic growth and make poverty reduction more difficult, and further erode food security
India stopped counting poor; now the world in bind on how to achieve zero poverty by 2030
World Bank’s latest poverty report highlights how absence of poverty data in India — junked by the government last year — …
ADB, Japan to help countries tap space technology to fight natural disasters
Grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction will be used to train government, community officials and volunteers in Armenia, Bangladesh, Fiji,…
Non-monetary indicator of poverty
Our policy makers should move away from the income criterion for estimating poverty and take cognisance of other indicators
Less than 500 days left, can India meet its MDG targets?
Going by current trends, the target for reducing infant mortality and improving other human development indices seem near impossible to achieve