poverty
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Colonial roots, criminalising the vulnerable: Why India’s laws against begging need an urgent rehaul
Sneha Priya Yanappa Avinash Reddy
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Gujarat added 1,359 families to below poverty line list in two years
Scroll Staff
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‘Do you work in business?’: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak serves breakfast to homeless man
Scroll Staff
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What a withdrawn Karnataka memo seeking Rs 100 from parents says about education funding in India
Gurumurthy Kasinathan
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What the story of two families says about the unchanging reality of living on the streets of Mumbai
Kalpana Sharma
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5.6 crore Indians plunged into poverty in 2020, says World Bank
Scroll Staff
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The Great Indian Poverty Debate, 2.0
Justin Sandefur
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Fact check: Has extreme poverty in India really dropped below 1%, as a new IMF paper claims?
Nidhi Jacob, Factchecker.in
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What statistics miss: Even households earning eight times the poverty line suffer from deprivation
Nushaiba Iqbal, IndiaSpend.com
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For India to measure poverty and achieve development goals, it needs a multipronged approach
Manjula M Amalendu Jyotishi
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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
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What does living in a democracy mean for the poor of India? This book goes to the people to find out
Suryakant Waghmore
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Afghanistan is on the verge of economic collapse – and Pakistan should be ready for the fallout
Aqdas Afzal, Dawn.com
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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
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In 2020, one in 10 people on Earth was undernourished
Jessica Eise, The Conversation
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Cash transfers are not the best way to fight poverty, despite what some politicians say
Heath Henderson, The Conversation
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The price of dreams: Why people buy lottery tickets even though the chance of winning is very low
Atanu Biswas
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What India can learn from Brazil in providing social protection to its vulnerable citizens
Andrés Fortunato
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Flaws in nutritional scheme for TB patients show challenges in feeding the hungry in Covid-19 times
Diptendu Bhattacharya Vashita Madan
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Coronavirus will push over 6 crore people into extreme poverty, says World Bank
Scroll Staff