Poor social indicators must make Gujarat rethink its growth model
Shockingly, the state’s infant mortality rate is worse than Jharkhand; it also has the fourth lowest teacher student ratio in the country
Cautionary tales
Jean Dreze argues that we should not leave the making of an equitable society to experts alone
Breaching the threshold
How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?
Assessing poverty-deforestation links: evidence from Swat, Pakistan
This blog is based on a paper that contributed to the debate on the links between poverty and forestry degradation; the view that due to poverty …
Oxfam takes IMF, World Bank to task
British aid agency Oxfam has criticised the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for their economic policies in sub-Saharan Africa.
The female face of environment
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Death by starvation
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.
Delhi's two faces: One rich, the other poor
The slums in the capital city will keep on growing unless the villages around it are allowed to prosper.
IMF package leads Pakistan to disaster
A short-term economic policy has meant more unemployment and poverty as well as a slower growth rate and environmental degradation
The poverty quibble
Government claims a huge drop in poverty numbers but critical indicators—health, malnutrition and wages—continue to be grim. So how …
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
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
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
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
How to love farmers-the Modi way
Like its other policies, the BJP government's Land Acquisition Ordinance favours industry at the cost of farmers
From riches to rags
The wealthy people of Nauru face a future of poverty because most of their only natural resource, phosphates, has been exploited ruthlessly by …