Poverty estimates have long been a political battleground in India. The recent Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) findings have been critiqued…
A study based in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, found that after a certain threshold, employment generation schemes like NREGA led to…
India is on its way to becoming the third-largest economy in the world, yet unemployment among young people with graduate…
Asia faces a unique demographic crisis. By 2050, the continent will have over a billion elderly people, the most in…
Surjeet Kaur is a 38-year-old farmer whose family has tilled land for generations in Patiala district in the Indian state…
Around 248 million people living in India escaped multidimensional poverty in the past nine years, according to a report by…
Fragile and least developed countries have had their development assistance cut drastically, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
It’s been almost exactly 15 years since Lehmann Brothers declared bankruptcy, marking the height of the financial crisis. Since then,…
Antimicrobial resistance stands as one of the most pressing global health concerns. However, it is in developing and economically challenged…
Riots broke out in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, following the lethal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy named as…
In a study of 19th-century ideas of poverty, the German historian Beate Althammer observes a strange dichotomy. On the one…
School plays a significant role in reducing child marriage in Africa. Amina, from a rural village in Nigeria, was 13 when…
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.…
Since the turn of the millennium, women have been leaving the workforce in India. Over 40.4 million fewer women are in paid…
Bangladesh, often held up as a model for poverty reduction, has influenced many poverty reduction initiatives around the world. In 2002,…
At a construction site on the outskirts of New Delhi, Ravinder Kumar, a mason, spends his days slicing giant luminescent…
Poverty and abuse often mean Indian girls and women see human traffickers as their ticket to a better life –…
Faced with criticism for her latest Budget not doing enough for the poor, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday mocked…
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday urged the minority community to adopt a “decent family planning policy” for…
Some 230 world leaders, including former presidents, prime ministers and ministers have backed a campaign urging the G7 countries to…
Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing…
The U.N. labour agency appealed to governments on Wednesday to support tens of millions of migrant workers forced to return…
The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the…
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