Profit from the poor

Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …

Tax the wealthy: 2 billion people can be lifted from poverty by levying the super-rich, says Oxfam

Gap between the rich and the poor broadened over the past two years

Fix what is broken

Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

Climate change in urban Nigeria — 4 factors that affect how residents adapt

Poverty drives vulnerability to climate risk in different ways

Simply put: What’s cooking in lockdown

India’s progress in health outcomes dismal: UN report

The under-five mortality rate in the country still stands at 43 per 1,000 live births

Poverty@25, India@70

Poverty remains conditional to one's social status

Outrage of the 99%

Chipko: Environmentalism of the poor

World Bank optimistic

A question of priorities

MOZAMBIQUE

Messy state(s)

In Court

Misery compounded

Developing diversity

Isn't a good fillip to growth also cultural in nature?

A waiver to common sense

From the blurbs

Simply Put: Wretched of the earth

This young Odisha widow’s only crimes are poverty and finding love outside her caste

Remati did not get social sanction for her marriage while her husband was alive; now, she has no voter or Aadhaar Card and thus cannot access food,…

Global Hunger Index 2023: India reports highest child wasting rate; slips 4 notches on ranking

The country’s child wasting rate is higher than that of conflict-ridden Yemen at 14.4 per cent and Sudan at 13.7 per cent

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 …