Claims of a spike in poverty and inequality in India during the COVID-19 pandemic are patently false as such claims are based on uncomparable different surveys, according to a paper co-authored by eminent economist Arvind Panagariya. The paper also noted that inequality fell in the country during Covid years, both in rural and urban areas […]
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Brazil presidential race goes to Lula-Bolsonaro runoff Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office. Poverty, unemployment […]
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Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What’s also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology that he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report released Tuesday by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. […]
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When the enumerators for identifying the extremely poor families in Kerala went around earlier this year for the survey as part of the government programme to alleviate poverty, they came across many people living totally cut off from society, unaware of the availability of support systems. One of them was living alone in a country […]
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