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
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&…
Giving birth to a poverty-free world
Reduction of poverty among children is central to a world without extreme 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 …
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 …
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
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 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 — …
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
How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’
Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible
