Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix

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Last ditch attempt

UPA gives sops under MGNREGS to attract rural voters ahead of elections

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

Latin lessons

Experiments in cash transfer in Latin America

World's biggest trade fair

The US used partnerships to counter multilateralism

Battle of the brackets

The Plan of Implementation is a list of vague expressions

Slum today, gone tomorrow

If the Union cabinet endorses a recent decision of the group of ministers, about 35,000 shanties will have to be removed from Mumbai's Santa Cruz …

After selling a minor girl to buy food, a prime ministerial visit, India’s face of poverty is drowned in debt

Phanas Punji’s next generations have the same level of poverty in what is called inter-generational chronic poverty

For basic needs

12 Maharashtra villages want to join Telengana

Forget 2022, more than 110 million Indians would remain poor forever

The next generation of the current poor Indians has high probability of remaining poor as well. Lack of access to resources like forests and …

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

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

How India remains poor: Nine billionaires own as much as half the people

India protests against rising Inequality

New leader, old challenge

India’s first PM born after Independence will face the old problem of poverty eradication

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

Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development

In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …

COVID-19: Over 500 million Africans may fall below extreme poverty line, warns report

Indicators such as fiscal deficits, rising debt and remittances are estimated to fall by 20% because of COVID-19 in Africa

Making the rich pay more to care for the poor is common sense

The growing gap between the rich and the poor is a result of how governments form policy

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 …

Why people want to be poor

Crisis in Chhattisgarh over implementation of food security law has crucial lessons for India's public distribution system

Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development

Book>> Daniel Klingensmith, 'One Valley and a Thousand' Dams, Nationalism and Development Oxford University Press New Delhi 2007

Enable the poor

Book>> Challenging the injustice of poverty • by Rehman Sobhan • sage • Rs 699