Tag:Poverty
Asia Pacific
Pandemic Pushes SDGs Further out of Reach of Asia and the Pacific
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is becoming increasingly distant. The region must use the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a roadmap to a...
Children
Impact of Lost Earnings due to COVID-19 to last for Generations says New Report
Although households with three or more children were the most likely to experience a loss of income, they were also most likely to receive...
Bangladesh
After Bangladesh, river meetings in India address riparian challenges
River meetings – or 'Nodi Boithoks' – empowered under-threat and overlooked river communities in Bangladesh to have a say in critical conversations about their...
Child Rights
Child sex abuse in Madagascar ‘widespread and tolerated’
Droughts and food scarcity is leading children to sell sex in Madagascar. Two deadly cyclones in recent weeks have heightened worries as successive drought...
Governance
Global trade likely to be subdued in 2022, after record $28.5 trillion in 2021
Global trade reached a record high in 2021, but it is expected to slow this year for many reasons including continuing delays in global...
E-governance
There is a need to unclothe cash transfer programmes!
It is pertinent to ask if a cash transfer allocation is good even if the scheme gets apportioned from the allocations required otherwise for...
COVID-19
Micro-estimates of wealth data ‘can help tackle poverty’
Around 97 million people were pushed into extreme poverty in 2021. Now, researchers at the University of California and the Data for Good programme...
Civil society
Inequality doesn’t kill. Destitution kills.
From the perspectives of developmental economics, economic equality is not the greatest of virtues; neither is economic inequality the worst of vices.
By Anuj Kumar...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project are not uniformly distributed, as certain villages experience benefits while...
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Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review of the air quality scenario in the National Capital Region...
Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All
By Yasmine Sherif
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review...
