Water, Africa’s Gold: Pan-continental shortage forces Africans to spend more on water than food

Women and children in Africa spend 4.5 million years collecting water every year: A pan-continental shortage has made hunt for water a daily …

A political thought for food

Global parliamentarians are forming a multilateral body to reform the agrifood system

Let decentralised renewable energy be the solution to the Northeast’s energy woes

Decentralised renewable energy addresses many of the concerns of the energy-deficit region, as discussed in the National Seminar on Access to …

India’s invisibilisation of donkey labour is rooted in the caste system

Donkeys are an integral part of livelihood of many marginalised sections; though donkeys play an important role in building cities, they are …

Leprosy, scabies and yaws — Togo’s neglected tropical skin diseases need attention

Stigma & absenteeism associated with skin diseases should encourage health authorities make the treatment of these diseases free of charge

G20 Summit: Oxfam urges action on COVID-19, climate, poverty and hunger

G20 leaders have a choice to either take urgent action or continue what they are doing, Oxfam says

Rapid urbanisation: Where do urban poor stand?

Delhi is the sixth-largest metropolis in the world. And yet, a third of its residences are part of slums with no basic resources 

COVID-19 aftershocks: This is an economic collapse triggered by a health crisis

Mehrotra is visiting professor, Centre for Development, University of Bath, UK, and former economics professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Mass poverty is back in India

After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year  

Look back at the decade: It’s a tinderbox world

Growth has stumped environment. The decade of 2020 is the last chance we have to walk the talk and make it right

Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income

Representing poverty as a well-defined objective condition focuses attention on symptoms and risks diverting attention away from underlying …

Rural youth population rising in agriculturally rich areas, but …

A new, global report explains why unemployment rate among rural men and women has tripled since 2011-12

Poor social indicators must make Gujarat rethink its growth model

Shockingly, the state’s infant mortality rate is worse than Jharkhand; it also has the fourth lowest teacher student ratio in the country

Cautionary tales

Jean Dreze argues that we should not leave the making of an equitable society to experts alone

Breaching the threshold

How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?

Oxfam takes IMF, World Bank to task

British aid agency Oxfam has criticised the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for their economic policies in sub-Saharan Africa.

The female face of environment

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Death by starvation

About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.

Delhi's two faces: One rich, the other poor

The slums in the capital city will keep on growing unless the villages around it are allowed to prosper.

IMF package leads Pakistan to disaster

A short-term economic policy has meant more unemployment and poverty as well as a slower growth rate and environmental degradation

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

Gujarat announces Rs 13-crore scheme for state's poor

Denial of the rural

'Maps of resource-rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'

Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent …

‘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 …