Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh poorest in the country: Global report

About 76.5 per cent of the people in the district are poor

Simply Put: Happy Halloween

Why Dashrath Manjhi’s feat should be celebrated more than Pichai’s and Nadella’s

A cynical comparison between two unequal worlds

The forgotten class

Middle class-driven anti-corruption campaign does not acknowledge the poor

Life after hail

Ideas India

The book celebrates bold enterprises of ordinary Indians

New poverty estimate scrapped

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh orders for new methodology

A complement, not a substitute

Cash transfer is effective only if basic services are in place

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

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

Not a bankable strategy

World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

India lifted 271 mln people out of poverty in 10 yrs, claims govt report

The poverty estimates used to back the claims, however, are decade old

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Economy of slippage

Spreading message

Prices rise, not hunger

People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO

BPL millionaires

Industrial houses use tribals as fronts to amass tribal land in Chhattisgarh

Only plans, no integration

Mandla Brimful of thirst

Average rainfall: 1,300 mm Irrigation: 2% of gross cropped area

Shocks caused by COVID-19: Addressing chronic poverty, its inter-generational transfer

Any health shock causes entry into poverty for most of those who suffer from it

Microfinance institutions escape charge of abetting suicide of clients

Police have closed a third of the micro loans-related suicide cases in Andhra Pradesh

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