Powering people

Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …

Global democracy tilts at the axis

Are the "forces of freedom" in the West muscular enough to deepen democracy at the global level?

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

Forlorn in the USA

About 12 million American families last year couldn't afford to buy food. 32 per cent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one …

Website review: http://www.inequality.org

The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being …

Gang leader for a day, a rogue sociologist crosses the line

Book>> Gang Leader For A Day, A Rogue Sociologist Crosses The line by Sudhir Venkatesh, Allen Lane London 2008

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Multidimensional poverty affects 2/3rd of children in rural Nigeria: UNICEF

Larger proportion of children involved in economic labour were multi-dimensionally poor

Poverty begets poverty

A 30-year survey of the poor gives a wake-up call

Job growth statistics conceal agrarian crisis

Quarter-billion people face extreme poverty in 2022 as the rich get richer: Oxfam

Inflation driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine a major factors behind financial crisis

Brief history of a line

The official definition of poverty keeps changing. A look at how the concept evolved Illustrations: Sorit

India’s poverty eradication challenge

The post-MDGs target seems impossible as chronic poverty sets in. Now, more poor people are becoming chronically poor compared to earlier times. …

Forgotten people Chambal's Bor Khedi villagers are still called the criminal tribe

BPL: a difficult line to draw

Comanagement of natural resources Local learning for poverty education

Book COMANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES LOCAL LEARNING FOR POVERTY REDUCTION *by Stephen R Tyler* International Development Research Centre

Simply Put: Poor feel the heat

Chronicle of a transition

The politics of poverty by D K Rangnekar, Sage, Rs 695

ASIA-PACIFIC

Simply Put: Right To Education

Simply Put: The poor and Pegasus

Simply Put: India's invisible poor

Simply Put: The poor's COVID-19 quandary

Tall claims

The extremes

Why Punjab prospers while Bihar gets poorer