Page 11 - Poverty

US needs to raise taxes to fight poverty: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

"If you actually want to deal with poverty, happiness and anger in the US, the government will need to have more resources," Banerjee said in an interview in Stockholm on Saturday

Consumer spend sees first fall in 4 decades on weak rural demand: NSO data

In rural areas, it declined by 8.8% in 2017-18; in cities, it rose by 2% over 6 years

Development economics after the Nobel Prize

In a world of crushing inequality and aggregate demand stagnation, the new laureates bring some cheer in showing us that incremental changes pursued steadfastly can add up to a lot

India halved its poverty rate since the 1990s: World Bank report

The country has achieved annual growth exceeding seven per cent over the last 15 years

Poverty biggest problem in the world, says Abhijit Banerjee's mother

Although Abhijit likes to focus on data and has a passion for mathematics, which Nirmala puts it, is logic explained in theories, the Nobel laureate has a liking to associate with people

Inequality can be economically harmful, not just ethically distasteful

In the concluding part of the series, the author explores the variety of reasons why inequality can have serious inefficiency consequences

How inequality can lead to inefficient economic outcomes

In the second part of the series, the author says there is evidence that inequality has encouraged excessive risk-taking in the financial sector and might have been partly responsible for the 2007-08

Does inequality matter when poverty is falling?

To moral and political philosophers steeped in the theory of justice, inequality in society may simply be ethically distasteful

12 million families may be out of poverty, thanks to reskilling initiative

Every year one member from almost 400,000-500,000 MGNREGS families will be skilled over the next 5 years

Why many children in Afghanistan can no longer afford to attend school

A UN report released last year said that more than 2 million Afghan children aged 6-14 were engaged in some form of child labor

Shekhar Gupta: Cities of misery

India's big cities are rotting, growing into massive, self-governing slums. When attempts are made to fix them, coral comes in the way, like in Mumbai

India records fastest reduction in multi-dimensional poverty in 2006-16

Jharkhand reduced the incidence of multidimensional poverty from 74.9 per cent in 2005-06 to 46.5 per cent in 2015-16

India lifted 271 mn out of poverty in 2006-16 at fastest rate globally: UN

The report identifies 10 countries - Bangladesh, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam - to illustrate the level of poverty reduction

3 times higher poverty rates in Indian households with children: Survey

A household is 1.6 times more likely to be deprived in access to basic necessities such as shelter, sanitation, education and water if there is an illiterate woman in the family.

Inclusiveness key to ending poverty

It's time to rewrite the rules of good governance, markets and systems to better serve the poor and ensure that they are able to escape poverty permanently

Over 270 mn people in India moved out of poverty between 2005-16: Report

While there is much that needs to be done to tackle poverty globally, there are "promising signs that such poverty can be - and is being - tackled", says the report

Modi's poverty problem

People like us can look after ourselves. The poor can't

Debashis Basu: Next, a surgical strike on poverty?

After all, if our ecstasy over a one-off military operation has to last, India needs to emerge as an economic superpower

Poverty may cause premature ageing: study

Previous research has shown that exposure to poor socio-economic conditions during childhood, adulthood, or cumulatively, is associated with cognitive deficits

Modi govt likely to come out with new poverty line

To be different from Tendulkar and Rangarajan estimates