An Indian earning a monthly wage of Rs 25,000 is among the top 10 per cent of earners in the country; what about those at the bottom?

Extreme poverty reduction estimates in Africa — based on 2017 prices — will soon reverse on account of higher food inflation during the pandemic

Food prices are increasing at an unprecedented rate worldwide, triggered by 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic-induced disruption and now the Russia-Ukraine...

The IMF executive director has just declared that India was nearly free of extreme poverty in 2020 and inequality was the lowest in 40 years

Basic facilities like housing, drinking water etc. are unalienable rights of individuals; should these be treated as benefits ‘provided’ by a...

We still have an incredibly great distance to cover for realising the vision of ‘new India’ by the 75th Independence Day

Children born under the grim shadow of the pandemic might present the next development challenge for the world

Developing nations are within their right to consume domestic natural resources for sustenance and development, even if it reaches unsustainable...

Low availability of water, coupled with livelihood prospect, remains a prominent reason for people from distressed regions migrating to Delhi

Amid the second wave of the pandemic, India enters into a situation that currently looks unimaginably distressed

In face of high food insecurity with COVID-19 resurging, many across the country are cutting back on critical food items

Even without an exception in a year of pandemic, the world’s leading billionaires added over one trillion dollars to their collective wealth