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Backgrounders
Poverty : Background & Perspective
"When I see it I know it," a US Supreme Court judge once said cryptically about obscenity. It is the same with poverty. When all the number-crunching is done, the lines of poverty defined and redefined, poverty is about the adivasi starving in Bolangir or Kalahandi,...
Analysis
Minimum-wage criteria provide a more realistic poverty line
What has been missing in the heated debates about the poverty line is a clear enunciation of which basic needs should be included. The 15th Indian Labour Conference of 1957 might have come up with the most comprehensive criteria for defining the minimum wage required to meet basic needs, writes Kath...
Features
The poor fight to stay on BPL list
The BPL survey 2011 and its inclusion/exclusion criteria has serious repercussions for India’s poor. The very BPL card that helped a person build a house under the Indira Awas Yojana will now see him excluded for owning a pucca house; the phone booth granted to the disabl...
Books & Reports
Why poor rural tribals will remain poor for generations
A new survey by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre identified 15 regions spread over six states where poverty is getting concentrated and chronic, and found that tribal and forested areas are likely to remain poor, with the decline in poverty among the rural tribal population go...
Changemakers
Truth, people and a video camera
Activist-filmmaker Shriprakash's honest, powerful documentaries attempt to capture the struggles and aspirations of local communities in Bihar and Jharkhand
Stories of change
ATM cards for Delhi's homeless
A scheme to enable hundreds of homeless people in Delhi to save has given them an identity and a new sense of pride and achievement
News
50% of scheduled caste population chronically undernourished: Binayak Sen
Dr Binayak Sen, recently nominated to the Planning Commission’s steering committee on health draws attention to starvation in India and says government policies are only adding to the problem
