Most poor people in Asia-Pacific region live in rural areas

Countries in the region have not been able to address rural poverty despite economic growth, says an IFAD report

Simply Put: Non-existent species

Simply Put: We the pharaohs

Half of India's children are poor

It raises a question: will they ever be out of poverty?

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

Who are the poor?

Planning Commission's poverty estimates do not reflect ground reality

Who are the poor?

Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …

Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included

Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court

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

Climate change can push more than 100 million people into poverty by 2030, says new report

In India alone, 45 million people could be pushed back over the poverty line by 2030, primarily due to agricultural shocks and increased …

Full-scale review of poverty

What is poverty? The Planning Commission is set to undertake an exercise to find a quantifiable answer to the question. It has proposed to the …

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

The forgotten class

Middle class-driven anti-corruption campaign does not acknowledge the poor

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 …

Less than a third BPL senior citizens benefit from old age pension scheme: Health ministry survey

Awareness and enrolment for widow pension and Annapurna schemes were even lower, the study said

US far from achieving first SDG to end poverty

The country, which is likely to miss 12 of 17 goals under the 2030 agenda, may take another 40 years to eradicate poverty going by its current pace

Simply Put: Flagging India’s housing problem

Simply Put: Unparliamentary in India

Simply Put: The wealth pyramid & the mummy

Laps of plenty

Small monies, few hitches

Soft 'target'

PDS' poor politic

Broadband for the poor

Poverty>> Broadband • UN