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 …

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

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

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

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

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

People working fewer hours due to Long COVID, as sick days increase dramatically: ILO report

Accommodation & food services, transportation & storage among sectors that saw substantial drops in mean hours worked

COVID-19: Over 500 million Africans may fall below extreme poverty line, warns report

Indicators such as fiscal deficits, rising debt and remittances are estimated to fall by 20% because of COVID-19 in Africa

Making the rich pay more to care for the poor is common sense

The growing gap between the rich and the poor is a result of how governments form policy

How these five states in India are making it difficult to meet global SDG commitments

NITI Aayog CEO got it right, almost. Just five states are increasing the global challenge of meeting sustainable development goals