Poverty
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Southeast China villagers asked to replace posters of Jesus with Xi Jinping’s to escape poverty
Scroll Staff
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Lost childhood: Many Pakistani girls still have children in their teens, and suffer for it
Murtaza Haider
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In Delhi, a bank run by street children for street children
Barcroft TV
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In Pakistan’s cotton fields, lack of protective gear and lax laws are making women pickers sick
Saleem Shaikh, Thomson Reuters Foundation Sughra Tunio, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Inequality is now a prime concern for top economists – and they feel universal basic income may help
Steve Schifferes, The Conversation
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A man in Delhi has converted a footpath into a school for the underprivileged children
Barcroft TV
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Can tourism alleviate global poverty? Only if the money goes to the poorer countries
Susanne Becken, The Conversation
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When do upper middle-class urban youngsters start thinking of themselves as poor?
Gayatri Jayaraman
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How PC Mahalanobis devised a survey that has helped India measure inequality for decades
University of Cambridge
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First read: This passage shows why Neel Mukherjee’s ‘A State of Freedom’ takes a knife to your gut
Neel Mukherjee
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Watch: The law says you can be arrested for ‘looking poor’ in India
Scroll Staff
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A small rise in summer temperatures in India could result in a big jump in heat-related deaths
Nayantara Narayanan
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In India, diabetes is fast becoming a disease of the poor
Vijay Shankar
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Childbirth expenses are pushing 47% of Indian women into poverty
Devanik Saha, IndiaSpend.com
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Facing fire: India’s poorest regions are the most vulnerable to heat waves
Mukta Patil, Indiaspend.com
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What a tribunal that blamed a man sleeping on the road for his death should know about homelessness
Harsh Mander
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Pain is the silent epidemic that India's health systems are failing to handle
Kanika Sharma
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How the black economy is (really) making poverty worse in India
Arun Kumar
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Interview: 'People from scheduled castes and tribes are three times more likely to be depressed'
Menaka Rao
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'It's like taking 85% of the blood out of someone's body': Economist Arun Kumar on demonetisation
Inderjit Badhwar Meha Mathur