poverty

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Counting India’s Poor: Here’s Why Celebrations May Be Premature

Poverty estimates have long been a political battleground in India. The recent Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) findings have been critiqued…

5 months ago
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NREGA Plays Important Role In Forest Cover

A study based in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, found that after a certain threshold, employment generation schemes like NREGA led to…

1 year ago
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Delhi’s Dilemma: A Growing Economy, Growing Unemployment

India is on its way to becoming the third-largest economy in the world, yet unemployment among young people with graduate…

1 year ago
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Why Elderly Women Are Better Off Living With Their Daughters

Asia faces a unique demographic crisis. By 2050, the continent will have over a billion elderly people, the most in…

1 year ago
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Bio-Briquettes Tackle India’s Climate, Pollution & Poverty Challenges

Surjeet Kaur is a 38-year-old farmer whose family has tilled land for generations in Patiala district in the Indian state…

1 year ago
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Is Poverty Really Decreasing In India?

Around 248 million people living in India escaped multidimensional poverty in the past nine years, according to a report by…

2 years ago
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Development Aid Cuts Will Hit Fragile Countries Hard

Fragile and least developed countries have had their development assistance cut drastically, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…

2 years ago
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Reasons Why Stereotyping Increases During Economic Crises

It’s been almost exactly 15 years since Lehmann Brothers declared bankruptcy, marking the height of the financial crisis. Since then,…

2 years ago
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Why India Has Most To Gain From Beating AMR – Antimicrobial Resistance

Antimicrobial resistance stands as one of the most pressing global health concerns. However, it is in developing and economically challenged…

2 years ago
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Why France Erupted In Riots

Riots broke out in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, following the lethal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy named as…

2 years ago
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Why Are The Poor Shunned? The Reasons Are Many and Complicated

In a study of 19th-century ideas of poverty, the German historian Beate Althammer observes a strange dichotomy. On the one…

2 years ago
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It Takes A Village To End Child Marriage

School plays a significant role in reducing child marriage in Africa. Amina, from a rural village in Nigeria, was 13 when…

2 years ago
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Poverty Battle Raged On In 2022: How Women Worked To Escape It

Global poverty eradication efforts continued to falter across the globe in 2022 no thanks to COVID-19 and an economic slowdown triggered by the Ukraine invasion.…

3 years ago
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Where Did Our Millions Of Working Women Go?

Since the turn of the millennium, women have been leaving the workforce in India. Over 40.4 million fewer women are in paid…

3 years ago
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What Really Works To Reduce Poverty

Bangladesh, often held up as a model for poverty reduction, has influenced many poverty reduction initiatives around the world. In 2002,…

3 years ago
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Comment: South Asia Needs Equitable Cooling As Heatwaves Worsen

At a construction site on the outskirts of New Delhi, Ravinder Kumar, a mason, spends his days slicing giant luminescent…

3 years ago
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Trafficked Girls: Grim Options, Grim Choices

Poverty and abuse often mean Indian girls and women see human traffickers as their ticket to a better life –…

3 years ago
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‘What Is The Poor You Are Talking About?’: FM

Faced with criticism for her latest Budget not doing enough for the poor, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday mocked…

4 years ago
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Adopt ‘Decent Family Planning Policy’: Assam CM To Minority Community

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday urged the minority community to adopt a “decent family planning policy” for…

4 years ago
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World Leaders Urge G7 Nations To Help Vaccinate World’s Poorest

Some 230 world leaders, including former presidents, prime ministers and ministers have backed a campaign urging the G7 countries to…

4 years ago
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Pandemic Pushed 32 Mn Indians Out Of Middle Class

Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing…

4 years ago
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Migrant Workers Need Support, Jobs At Home: ILO

The U.N. labour agency appealed to governments on Wednesday to support tens of millions of migrant workers forced to return…

5 years ago
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Covid-19 Crisis Could Plunge Half A Billion Into Poverty: Oxfam

The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the…

5 years ago

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