India’s criminal wastage: over 10 million works under MGNREGA incomplete or abandoned  

Since April 2014, the rate of work completion has been declining at rapid pace, indicating that crucial assets for villages are not getting created

DRDA faces axe

District Rural Development Agency in conflict with Constitution; committee suggests its abolition

Neocolonial Raj has taken root in India

Inequality has been widening rapidly in the country since the 1990s

War-Pandemic: World is poorer now; will double its poverty level on the target year of eradication

Poverty is getting concentrated and chronic in sub-Saharan Africa and rural areas

‘Accelerating exodus from farming key to achieve target of doubling income’

To double farmers’ income reduce the number of farmers, suggest policy makers

Every third child in the world is poor: UN

Children are more prone to poverty than adults across the world

Roti, kapda, makaan... and vaccine: Can it sway elections

With potential COVID-19 vaccines equalling cheap foodgrains’ power as a poll promise, can vaccine sub-nationalism be far behind

गरीबी की दलदल

हम गरीबी को परंपरागत बनाने की दिशा में आगे बढ़ रहे हैं। यही वजह है कि गरीब परिवार के बच्चों के भी गरीब ही ...

भारत की आपराधिक बर्बादी: मनरेगा के तहत एक करोड़ से अधिक का काम अधूरा

डाउन टू अर्थ का विश्लेषण यह सामने लाता है कि ज्यादातर कार्य उन राज्यों में अपूर्ण हैं, जिनके कई जिलों ने पिछले तीन साल के ...

Channels of change

Two villages in Uttar Pradesh have reversed the trend of migration by digging six kilometres of channels to bring water to drought-hit farms

In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

Cashing in on India’s demographic dividend

India will have the demographic dividend for another decade. It takes massive skill update to translate this advantage into a development bonanza

COVID-19: A generation interrupted

Children born today might be the next development challenge for the world

The others too

The MeToo campaign comes at a time when women are being courted for electoral gains. Is it good or bad?

How COVID-19 changed the crime profile of India in 2020

Cases of ‘disobedience’ or violation of COVID-19 norms increased by over 20 times in just a year; without it, overall crime was lower …

Cash-based aid not a silver bullet, but offers flexibility, choice to beneficiaries

Cash relief brings people into the formal financial system and makes financial inclusion possible

Why India's poor laugh at anti-corruption campaigns

Indian anti-corruption drives don't factor in the poor, the worst victims of the scourge

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

A trial with too many errors

Infighting within AAP post its brute win in Delhi raises doubts about civil society's tryst with electoral politics

Nepal's poor carry it off

As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. …

India 117th among 190 countries in empowering women

Even least developed countries like Rwanda, Lesotho fared better than India

The flame of forest rages on

A bureaucrat-turned-activist who saw governance through the eyes of the tribals

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

पंचायतों पर डोरे डालने के निहितार्थ

पंचायती राज व्यवस्था अपने 25वें साल में है। विकास का महत्वपूर्ण यंत्र बनने के कारण ये सभी दलों को आकर्षित कर रही है। 

Why the world needs a new wave of migration

Migrants would sustain the developed countries’ economy in the near future as their working population hits record low