Colonial roots, criminalising the vulnerable: Why India’s laws against begging need an urgent rehaul

Sneha Priya Yanappa Avinash Reddy

· Apr 16, 2023 · 09:00 am

Gujarat added 1,359 families to below poverty line list in two years

Scroll Staff

· Mar 22, 2023 · 07:31 pm

‘Do you work in business?’: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak serves breakfast to homeless man

Scroll Staff

· Dec 25, 2022 · 10:35 am

What a withdrawn Karnataka memo seeking Rs 100 from parents says about education funding in India

Gurumurthy Kasinathan

· Nov 28, 2022 · 11:30 am

What the story of two families says about the unchanging reality of living on the streets of Mumbai

Kalpana Sharma

· Oct 18, 2022 · 09:00 am

5.6 crore Indians plunged into poverty in 2020, says World Bank

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· Oct 06, 2022 · 11:12 am

The Great Indian Poverty Debate, 2.0

Justin Sandefur

· Apr 26, 2022 · 11:30 am

Fact check: Has extreme poverty in India really dropped below 1%, as a new IMF paper claims?

Nidhi Jacob, Factchecker.in

· Apr 22, 2022 · 07:30 pm

What statistics miss: Even households earning eight times the poverty line suffer from deprivation

Nushaiba Iqbal, IndiaSpend.com

· Apr 05, 2022 · 01:30 pm

For India to measure poverty and achieve development goals, it needs a multipronged approach

Manjula M Amalendu Jyotishi

· Mar 03, 2022 · 09:00 am

How Covid-19 pandemic has pushed India’s female domestic workers further to the margins

Deepanshu Mohan Jignesh Mistry Advaita Singh Vanshika Mittal Richa Sekhani Shivani Agarwal

· Oct 09, 2021 · 06:30 am

What does living in a democracy mean for the poor of India? This book goes to the people to find out

Suryakant Waghmore

· Sep 19, 2021 · 08:30 am

Afghanistan is on the verge of economic collapse – and Pakistan should be ready for the fallout

Aqdas Afzal, Dawn.com

· Sep 11, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Forget the American Dream. Millions of workers in the US can’t even afford food and rent

Jeffrey Kucik, The Conversation Don Leonard, The Conversation

· Aug 10, 2021 · 11:30 pm

In 2020, one in 10 people on Earth was undernourished

Jessica Eise, The Conversation

· Jul 16, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Cash transfers are not the best way to fight poverty, despite what some politicians say

Heath Henderson, The Conversation

· Mar 19, 2021 · 09:30 pm

The price of dreams: Why people buy lottery tickets even though the chance of winning is very low

Atanu Biswas

· Jan 07, 2021 · 11:30 am

What India can learn from Brazil in providing social protection to its vulnerable citizens

Andrés Fortunato

· Nov 06, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Flaws in nutritional scheme for TB patients show challenges in feeding the hungry in Covid-19 times

Diptendu Bhattacharya Vashita Madan

· Sep 11, 2020 · 07:30 am

Coronavirus will push over 6 crore people into extreme poverty, says World Bank

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· May 20, 2020 · 03:30 pm