Bad environment makes the poor more susceptible to diseases

Since 1997, V Ramaswamy has been working in Priya Manna Basti in Howrah -- a town inhabited by railway porters -- under the Howrah pilot …

Piecemeal proposals

The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain (Read full article)

Agony of the waiting

There is a strange calmness in the oncology department of government hospitals though it is more crowded that most other sections. Everybody waits.…

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

'Let's put our cards on the table'

Veteran UN negotiator and head of the UNEP during the Rio summit, Mostafa Tolba, reasons why developing countries always suffer at the hands of …

WSSD: dialogue of the deaf

The needs of many were once again compromised to accommodate the demands of a powerful few. Given the alarming tilt towards self-interest and …

Better roads must for food security

Sound investment on infrastructure could curb hunger by 2030

First comes chick

Kuroiler hens offer a poultry business model that can fight poverty, nutritional stress

True measure of growth

Why only panchayats?

Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively

IN SHORT

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Chirala saree weavers losing out to computer-aided designs

Tribal women in Chattisgarh beat the poverty trap with fortunes from traditional medicines

Role models

Two Madhya Pradesh villages break free of debts, Naxalites

When the government must step in

India’s richest 5% spent 8-10 times its poorest; agri household expenditure lower than rural avg for 1st time: NSSO

Household spending increased since 1999-2000; disadvantaged sections in rural, urban India spent lowest

Disconnect

Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …

COVID-19: Up to 49.2 million Africans could become extremely poor by 2021, says report

More than half of Africa least prepared to deal with pandemic according to African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement

Premature scheme

Gujarat's plan to increase institutional deliveries among expecting mothers has fallen flat

In Africa, climate change has exacerbated modern slavery & government response is poor

More than 3.1 million Africans are in forced marriage and more than 3.8 million in forced labour

Need to make agri-food systems resilient to address food security: SOFA 2021

Food costs could increase for up to 845 million people if a disruption to critical transport links were to occur, SOFA 2021 flagged

Delhi hospitals freed of poor

Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow