What Sierra Leone teaches us on poverty measurement
The latest Global Multidimensional Poverty Index says this least developed country reduced overall poverty and deprivations fastest in the world …
American Dream’s dark side: There is chronic poverty in the US
As one sociologist explains, privileged Americans and corporations profit if one deeply poor generation transmits it poverty to the next&…
India stopped counting poor; now the world in bind on how to achieve zero poverty by 2030
World Bank’s latest poverty report highlights how absence of poverty data in India — junked by the government last year — …
Poverty is ecological: We must accept income poverty is the wrong yardstick
Today, October 17, 2020, we observe the 27th anniversary of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at a time when the COVID-19 …
India needs the ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan back
Anti-poverty programmes must be universal, not just on a below or above poverty line matrix
Two per cent of world population: that’s the number of poor in just five states of India
42 per cent of India’s population lives in these states and nearly one in every 4 person is poor
COVID-19 impact: World will have 150 million ‘new extreme poor people’ in 2021
This is nearly twice the number of ‘new extreme poor’ estimated by the World Bank in April 2020
India has pushed back poverty, still home to most poor people in world: UNDP index
Pre-pandemic data shows 228.9 million poor people in India highest in the world, Nigeria follows at 97 million
Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s
Poverty is likely to increase dramatically in middle-income developing countries in Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines
135 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty in last 5 years: Niti Aayog report
Uttar Pradesh sees the most reduction — 3.45 million people freed from multidimensional poverty
The world will miss the SDG target 1, a poverty-free world
1.6 people should escape poverty every second but currently just 1.1 are doing so. Worryingly, by 2020, the rate of poverty reduction would …
India lifted 415 million people out of poverty in 15 years
In 2021, there were 230 million people still in poverty & nearly 19% population vulnerable to poverty, according to the latest update to the …
How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’
Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible
Bhukh chala gaya, dukh nahi: The new hunger problem stalking India’s poorest region
Government schemes have brought food to people in Koraput, Kalahandi and Bastar; but they still do not have sustainable livelihoods
Alleviating poverty: Forests, trees can be trump card post COVID-19, says report
The World Bank has projected extreme poverty to increase for the first time in 20 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Every second extreme poor in the world is a child
India has some 52 million children in extreme poverty, according to an assessment by World Bank and UNICEF
Unequal India:101 billionaires thrive; 364 million poor struggle to survive
About 27.5 per cent of India’s population is multidimensionally poor and 8.6 per cent of the country’s people live in extreme poverty
What makes one poor in India
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 shows lack of access to nutrition, fuel, housing and sanitation keeps millions in poverty
India’s poverty: There is no end to Surjit Bhalla’s imagination
The IMF executive director has just declared that India was nearly free of extreme poverty in 2020 and inequality was lowest in 40 years due to …
A year without a crop
A failed monsoon is alarming for Jharkhand, a state where severe drought has become more frequent in the last 2 decades
Who is economically secular?
The rich have the chance to get richer in an economic crisis while the poor face the prospect of sinking deeper in poverty
One child born every second of next 7 years to be stunted if SDG progress not accelerated: Data
Sub-Saharan Africa will be most affected, with 86 million cases of stunting for children born between 2023 & 2030
How India remains poor: Nine billionaires own as much as half the people
India protests against rising Inequality
Dying for ration: Tonk woman bringing up family on Rs 200 a day not eligible for PDS welfare
Ill-treated by husband for not birthing a boy, free ration would mean not worrying about feeding her daughters
How India remains poor: As many as 22 states have become poorer
Latest NITI Aayog counts no state as ‘achiever’; overall performance of most ‘performing’, ‘laggard’ states …
