One out of every two Bihar households is multi-dimensionally poor: NITI Aayog

The share of multi-dimensional poor in Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh is also uncomfortably high, according to NITI Aayog

NITI Ayog's SDG report flags huge worries about hunger, poverty in India

Poor show by 25 states on food security and malnutrition Sustainable Development Index 2019 

The more Asians migrate to cities, the more it will help tigers, says study

Researchers from a prominent non-profit feel that Asia's increasing urbanisation and rapid demographic transition could mean that tiger range …

Troubled by illness, 385,000 people committed suicide between 2001 and 2015

At least four per cent of India’s population suffers from poverty because they have to incur huge expenses for treating their illness

The curious case of missing children at anganwadis

The names of malnourished children are missing from the registers at several anganwadis in Madhya Pradesh

Environment: A People's Perspective

Justice is a central component of the conceptual transition from human development to sustainable human development and a similar concern for …

Past lessons, future strategies

Studying the history of human interaction with nature can be very useful in formulating resource management policies. It can also provide a …

Vertigo at the summit

The forthcoming World Summit for Social Development has already polarised North-South social imperatives

The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

Rise of livestock

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain

Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

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 …

Mass poverty is back in India

After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year  

Breaching the threshold

How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?

A political thought for food

Global parliamentarians are forming a multilateral body to reform the agrifood system

Let decentralised renewable energy be the solution to the Northeast’s energy woes

Decentralised renewable energy addresses many of the concerns of the energy-deficit region, as discussed in the National Seminar on Access to …

India’s invisibilisation of donkey labour is rooted in the caste system

Donkeys are an integral part of livelihood of many marginalised sections; though donkeys play an important role in building cities, they are …

Leprosy, scabies and yaws — Togo’s neglected tropical skin diseases need attention

Stigma & absenteeism associated with skin diseases should encourage health authorities make the treatment of these diseases free of charge

Water, Africa’s Gold: Pan-continental shortage forces Africans to spend more on water than food

Women and children in Africa spend 4.5 million years collecting water every year: A pan-continental shortage has made hunt for water a daily …

G20 Summit: Oxfam urges action on COVID-19, climate, poverty and hunger

G20 leaders have a choice to either take urgent action or continue what they are doing, Oxfam says

Rapid urbanisation: Where do urban poor stand?

Delhi is the sixth-largest metropolis in the world. And yet, a third of its residences are part of slums with no basic resources 

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

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

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