Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking the deposit of saved DA amount directly in bank accounts of the poor by Prof Hemantkumar Shah of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, and Mahesh Pandya of the Gujarat Social Watch: We heartily welcome the decision taken by the Government of India (GoI) of freezing the DA … More Letter to PM seeking the deposit of saved DA amount directly in bank accounts of the poor

Coronavirus will cause starvation; only a truly universal basic income can prevent it, argues the World Basic Income blog, seeking global response:  Children in the town of Naivasha, Kenya might catch coronavirus, but like most kids their symptoms should be mild. A bigger problem for them right now is that their parents just lost their … More 80% UK citizens’ wages protected, they can book food deliveries, as people world over may starve

Which countries reduced poverty rates the most? A note prepared by World Bank experts Miyoko Asai, Daniel Mahler, Silvia Malgioglio, Ambar Narayan, Minh Cong Nguyen:  One of the goals of the World Bank Group is to reduce extreme poverty—defined as living on less than $1.90 per day in 2011 PPP—to less than 3% by 2030. … More In India low rates of extreme poverty in still translate to millions of people living in deprivation: World Bank

By Vishesh Gupta  Pavement dwellers include people living on the pavement, under the bridge, flyover, bus stop, near the railway station, in parks or under the open sky in any public place in the metros and urban areas where public facilities like public toilet are provided. Some of these people migrate from small villages looking … More Invisible urban poor: The pavement dwellers of India

Reproduced below is a 2011 blog by Indore-based activist Rahul Banerjee on “Poor Economics”, a widely acclaimed book by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who have been conferred this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. The blog has been recommended as a must read for those who wish to understand the economics of poverty alleviation suggested … More ‘Poor Economics’ seeks to stimulate debate on one of the most challenging issues of our time: Poverty

The Right to Food Campaign (RFT), Jharkhand, prepared detailed reports on the starvation death of two more persons in the state, Motka Manjhi and Ramachandra Munda. Text of the reports: Motka Manjhi: On 3rd June 2019 a fact-finding team consisting of Mr. Ashrfi Nand Prasad, Mr Prathyush S,  both from Right to Food Campaign (RTF), Mr. Sushanto … More Had pensions been paid on time, Motka Manjhi and Ramachandra Munda would perhaps be alive today

By Mohan Guruswamy* Late last year, two young men decided to live a month of their lives on the income of an average poor Indian. One of them, Tushar, the son of a police officer in Haryana, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and worked for three years as an investment banker in the US … More Two friends’ brief encounter with poverty taught them why food security is so essential for all