The Centre for Development Policy and Management (CDPM) at IIM Udaipur organised a panel discussion titled 'Intergenerational Mobility and Pathways out of Poverty in India' on Monday, 22 December 2025 ...
Opinion

Thousand faces of poverty

Poverty is as misunderstood as any subject can be. At one level, it could mean no food, no clothes, bad health, and recognized inadequacy of shelters, amenities, and services.
In 2025, Kerala achieved digital literacy, poverty eradication, and faced significant political and environmental events, ...
As the year comes to a close, we explain how deeper problems persist, including a delayed census weakening survey estimates ...
The Modi government is gutting the rural job “guarantee,” fulfilling a longstanding demand of the most rapacious sections of ...
Economist Prabhat Patnaik highlights India's growing inequality and advocates for wealth and inheritance taxes to support ...
With a new Modi government rural job guarantee set to replace NREGA, a look at what the UPA’s social security initiative had ...
On November 20, 2019, I wrote for The Indian Express on “A Greater Ease of Living.” I had argued that discussions of rural ...
Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) entitled every rural ...
Elon Musk foresees a future without poverty, envisioning universal high incomes where saving money becomes obsolete.
After Sri Lanka struggled through one of the worst storms in its history, tea plantation workers are taking temporary refuge ...
Archna succeeds Hari Menon, who has led the foundation’s India Country Office since 2019. Menon will transition to a global ...