COVID-19 aftershocks: This is an economic collapse triggered by a health crisis
Mehrotra is visiting professor, Centre for Development, University of Bath, UK, and former economics professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Mass poverty is back in India
After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year
Look back at the decade: It’s a tinderbox world
Growth has stumped environment. The decade of 2020 is the last chance we have to walk the talk and make it right
Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income
Representing poverty as a well-defined objective condition focuses attention on symptoms and risks diverting attention away from underlying …
Rural youth population rising in agriculturally rich areas, but …
A new, global report explains why unemployment rate among rural men and women has tripled since 2011-12
Drought but why: How poverty is aggravated
Study shows during drought years in Rajasthan, the vulnerability of rural households to poverty increases
Can India reduce food wastage with community refrigerators?
Community refrigerators have helped reduce food wastage in the UAE, Germany and France. India too can popularise and scale up the initiative
World off-track to meet SDGs; global hunger back to 2005 levels, says UN secretary general
Halfway to 2030, a third of the goals have stalled or gone into reverse, emissions continue to rise & gender equality is 300 years away, says …
Burundi at 60 is the poorest country on the planet: a look at what went wrong
Co-opted administrative and economic bureaucracies have appropriated power and wealth by force, first for the benefit of a Tutsi and then of a …
Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: Dalit votes matter, but what about their issues
Punjab’s political parties have hardly focussed on addressing issues of the state’s landless rural Dalits and the cateism the …
Gains lost: ILO flags rise in child labour — the first time this millennium
Globally, 9 million more children are at risk of child labour by the end of 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 has hit India’s urban poor more than those in villages: Report
Urban poor have seen a decline in income and have been left more hungry, though this was not the case earlier
Cape Town’s climate strategy isn’t perfect, but every African city should have one
Only 13 cities in Africa are C40 cities — cities committed to taking measurable climate action. Only five in South Africa have climate …
Need for revisiting Gandhi at this critical juncture
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought ugly realities into focus; this is when Gandhi and his thoughts become even more relevant
Gaps in South Africa’s relief scheme leave some workers with no income
Exclusion of workers whose employers failed to register them for unemployment insurance remains a major gap
305 million African children will be living in extreme poverty by 2030: Report
New British think tank report suggests cash transfers, access to basic services and redistributive public finance can help in curtailing child poverty
Africa to house 86% of the world’s poorest by 2050
Population growth in Africa is a major reason for high concentration of people living in extreme poverty, says a report
Youth need to occupy the future on climate change
Youth will suffer the fury of climate change. The time to change that is now— for today and for the future
Deforestation rate slowed down: FAO
The pace of loss of forests has slowed in recent years even though the world’s forest area decreased from 31% to 30% between 1990 and 2015
Diseases, lack of continuum of care perpetuating malnutrition among children: experts
Major gaps identifed by experts, include improper screening methods to identify malnourished children and treatment failures
Africa’s energy poverty: Millions in rural areas are not part of Ethiopia’s energy transition drive
Nearly 86% of Ethiopia’s energy demand is met through biomass; most people here live in energy poverty
DTE tracks trafficking: Droughts, migrating parents leave Marathwada girls vulnerable
Sugarcane cutters’ children at high risk, targeted through proxy marriages
Nearly 51 million internally displaced in 33 countries in first half of 2021: UN
The lethal mix of conflict, COVID-19, poverty, food insecurity and climate emergency has compounded humanitarian plight of the displaced, flags …
Dilli’s dalchawal politics: The taste of power
The unabashed one-upmanship indulged by key players has made even the prospect of a joint activity a painful chore.
COVID-19: Fear factor, supply uncertainty can make second wave worse for rural India, warns Pronab Sen
Down To Earth spoke to economist Sen, India’s former chief statistician and programme director for the International Growth Centre - …