World’s most extreme inequality increase in India

Governments poorer than private individuals now as world wealth gets concentrated among a few; a similar situation seen at peak of imperialism …

Africa’s children need help coping with a myriad of stresses, not just HIV

The global health community has made significant progress over the past 15 years to understand how to keep HIV-positive children alive and …

Assam bank is changing lives, making entrepreneurs of illiterate women

The cooperative bank has been helping marginalised women save and become financially independent

Bread, values and politics

The forthcoming World Food Summit must ensure that the umbrella of food security also extends to encompass the Southern nations' poor

New battlegrounds

FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL· Michael Renner·WW Norton and Company, New York and London·1996· Price US $11

Summing up poverty

The latest Human Development Report highlights the need for people- and resource-friendly development

Grim kaleidoscope

EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD DROUGHT·P Sainath·Penguin Books India (P) Ltd·1997· Price Rs 295

Non-monetary indicator of poverty

Our policy makers should move away from the income criterion for estimating poverty and take cognisance of other indicators

Vietnam targets poverty with tourism

An ILO project generates job opportunities for local people in remote villages

In defence of capitalism

Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense

Anti-Naxal operations a cover for exploiting tribal people

Poor countries have remained poor, says World Bank

A new report confirms that Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are home to some of the poorest populations

Poor India speaks

book>> Caterpillar and the Mahua Flower, Tremors in India's Mining Fields edited by Rakesh Kalshian Panos South Asia New Delhi 2007

Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

MGNREGA graft: Social audit finds irregularities worth Rs 54 lakh in Rajasthan

Corruption was unearthed in 2022 after the workers from Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan in Barmer reported the issue to the Rajasthan government

Climate change to lower living standards of 50% Indians: World Bank

Most affected states will be Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh

Quarter of a billion people are facing acute hunger: Report

Key drivers of this crisis were economic shocks, conflicts & climate extremes

Simply Put: Dying for ration

Africa: We must go beyond singular responses in the fight against child poverty

Policies need to address in all the complexities of child poverty

From the blurbs

From the blurb

War on poverty

At the feet of poverty

ARAVALLI PAHARIAN HARIALI KI ORE VHS Written and directed by K L Manhas 35 min

Running away

PROJECTS FOR PAKISTAN