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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: Poverty

Economic Survey notes ‘improvement in equity’ — better access to bare necessities across India

Economic Survey released Friday also says the poorest households had ‘disproportionately more’ access to basic amenities in 2018 as compared to 2012.

Covid pandemic could lead to 1 billion living in extreme poverty by 2030, says UN study

The study, however, also found that investment in a set of focused Sustainable Development Goals over the next 10 years could exceed development trajectory to the pre-pandemic era.

China has got rid of extreme poverty, but the poor haven’t gone away

There’s still plenty of penury in urban areas and among migrants, often excluded from official discourse that has focused on rural poverty.

150-175 million people will fall into extreme poverty due to Covid fallout, says UN expert

Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter said most of those who will fall into extreme poverty will be informal sector workers or in precarious employment conditions, especially women.

Oxfam says IMF loans during Covid force spending cuts that will worsen poverty

76 of 91 loans given by IMF since March have sought belt tightening and could result in deep cuts to public healthcare & pensions, charity group said.

Time poverty is making Indian women lose more money than ever

In ‘Labouring women’, economist Jayati Ghosh writes about what Indian policymakers are getting wrong in their measure of poverty.

Mamata Banerjee’s special grant to Brahmin priests isn’t really about poverty

West Bengal CM’s Rs 1,000 monthly allowance and free housing scheme for Brahmin priests follows the age-old tradition of appeasing Brahmins.

How Covid worsened hunger in India, the world’s largest food basket

The pandemic disrupted local, regional and national supply chains, adding to the impacts of the country’s food waste problem.

India saw world’s largest reduction in poverty from 2005-16, says Oxford-UN study

Around 273 million people were lifted out of multidimensional poverty in India, the study by Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative with United Nations Development Programme has noted.

India could afford to overlook economic inequality until now. Covid has changed that

For two decades, I had maintained that unlike the developed West, India should not be overly concerned about inequalities because our economy was in the growth phase.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.