Topic: Poverty

On 14 June 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speech at the UN conference on environment in Stockholm called out the hypocrisy of rich nations that advanced due to industrialisation by exploiting natural resources and labour of colonised countries but now expect developing nations to be mindful of not causing damage to the environment.

3 decades ago, half the people in India had incomes greater than $2.15 a day. Today 7 out of 8 do. Unemployment, though, remains a problem with no easy answer to providing well-paying jobs.

Stereotypes are mental shortcuts hardwired in us. They help us with quick decision-making when we are faced with a lack of information, in turn aiding survival.

: A higher FDI hasn’t always translated to a higher number of factories in that state or a higher number of jobs created.

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NITI Aayog Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023 shows 13.5 crore Indians escaped poverty between 2016 and 2021. Data suggests a big boost came from ‘standard of living’ indicators.

The study which used UN MPI, based on 12 indicators such as malnutrition, education and sanitation, said rural areas saw the strongest fall in poverty.

An update to global Multidimensional Poverty Index report 2022 found that deprivation across all indicators had declined in India. Post-pandemic data wasn’t available for report.

Besides India, China lifted 69 million out of poverty between 2010-2014, and Indonesia 8 million between 2012-2017.

In 'An Alternative Development Agenda for India', Sanjay Kaul presents a transformative, sustainable developmental agenda for India, focusing on seven vital sectors and the systemic issues that plague them.