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Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: Facing a Financial Crunch Post-Lockdown, Family of Five End Life
13 Mar 2021
According to CMIE’s estimates, for the past 20 months – since February 2019 – the unemployment rate in Bihar has been more than 10%.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Survey Says About One-Fifth of Informal Sector Workers Still Out of Work after Lockdown
29 Jan 2021
Nine in 10 households reported cutting back on food consumption during the lockdown because of a lack of income. Six months later, only one-third of the households reported that consumption was back…
Prabhat Patnaik
Decline in Global Poverty is a Farce Perpetuated by World Bank’s Poverty Line
18 Jul 2020
There is much self-congratulatory back-slapping among governments, World Bank officials and many economists about the “decline in poverty” that is supposed to have occurred between 1990 and the ons
Newsclick Report
360 Million South Asian Children Might Be Pushed into Poverty: UNICEF
24 Jun 2020
The statement further added that the increase in economic distress threatens to cause a spike in child marriage, child labour and, institutionalisation of children in childcare homes.
Mohd. Imran Khan
COVID-19: Suicides Mount in Bihar as Poverty Tightens its Grip
05 Jun 2020
The fear of hunger and an uncertainty is growing among the poor in the state. The likely beneficiaries of the relief package have staged protests at several places since they have been rendered…
Zoe PC/ Tanya Wadhwa
One Year After Taking Charge, Nayib Bukele Faces Severe Criticism for Handling of COVID-19
03 Jun 2020
Salvadoran president’s first year in office has been marked by political tensions, militarization and false promises. However, his failures in handling COVID-19 are bringing more people on to the…
PTI
About 11 Million People Could be Driven into Poverty in East Asia and Pacific: World Bank
31 Mar 2020
To combat the COVID-19 shock, the World Bank report suggested urgent investments in national healthcare capacity and longer-term preparedness, among others.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
India Far from Achieving SDGs to Eradicate Poverty, Hunger, and Inequality
11 Jan 2020
India performed worse in 2019 for several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with scores lower than that of 2018, according to the SDG Index 2019-20 released by the NITI Aayog just before 2019…
Ajay Gudavarthy, G Vijay
Why this Government Does Nothing About Economic Crisis
10 Jan 2020
Inclusivity would reverse the status quo. That’s why BJP doesn’t want it.
Prabhat Patnaik
Criminal Callousness of Modi Government in Hiding Data
22 Nov 2019
This is the first time data thrown up by an official statistical survey has been entirely suppressed, with all the funds spent on the consumer expenditure survey going down the drain.