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]China has eradicated absolute poverty: President Xi Jinping
The announcement is a propaganda victory for the Communist Party, capping an eight-year anti-poverty drive, and coming in a year in which China’s economy has been battered by the pandemic
Updated on Dec 05, 2020 12:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Beijing | Sutirtho Patranobis
World Bank chief warns extreme poverty could surge by 100 million
The Washington-based development lender previously estimated that 60 million people would fall into extreme poverty due to Covid-19, but the new estimate puts the deterioration at 70 to 100 million, and he said “that number could go higher” if the pandemic worsens or drags on.
Updated on Aug 21, 2020 05:26 AM IST
Washington | Agence France-Presse| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
Covid-19: Extreme poverty rises; a generation sees a future slip away
Decades of progress in one of modern history’s greatest achievements, the fight against extreme poverty, are in danger of slipping away because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Updated on Aug 10, 2020 02:57 PM IST
Associated Press | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Weighed down by poverty, Ludhiana coolies desperate to start work again
No help offered by the government during the lockdown, they say, leaving them totally dependent on NGOs for food and rations for their families
Updated on Jun 04, 2020 08:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Coronavirus crisis could plunge half a billion people into poverty: Report
Under the most serious scenario - a 20% contraction in income - the number of people living in extreme poverty would rise by 434 million people to 922 million worldwide.
Updated on Apr 10, 2020 12:38 PM IST
London | Reuters
Coronavirus pandemic could push 400mn Indians deeper into poverty, says ILO
The unemployment scenario is unlikely to improve in the second half of 2020, ILO said, adding that it estimates working hours will decline by 6.7% in the second quarter of 2020, which is equivalent to 195 million full-time workers.
Published on Apr 09, 2020 10:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
About 400 million workers in India may sink into poverty: UN report
The International Labour Organization (ILO) in its report titled ‘ILO Monitor 2nd edition: COVID-19 and the world of work’, describes coronavirus pandemic as “the worst global crisis since World War II”.
Published on Apr 08, 2020 03:49 PM IST
United Nations | Press Trust of India
Covid-19 crisis can push 40 cr informal sector workers in India deeper into poverty: ILO Report
According to the Internatioanal Labour Organisation report, India is among the countries less equipped to handle the situation arising out of lockdwon imposed to curb Covid-19 pandemic.
Updated on Apr 07, 2020 10:47 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Bathinda’s Indian Idol believed in his dream of making it big as a singer despite poverty
Family, friends celebrate shoeshine boy turned singer Sunny Hindustani’s win by dancing to the dhol; sisters recall how he was firm on achieving big and pleaded with his mother for that one chance to audition
Updated on Feb 24, 2020 05:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Sachin Kumar
Higher poverty linked to increased youth suicide risk
According to the study, suicide in children under age 20 has been increasing in the US, with rates almost doubling over the last decade. Between 2007 to 2016, nearly 21,000 children ages 5-19 years old died by suicide.
Updated on Feb 03, 2020 02:58 PM IST
New York | Indo Asian News Service
Kangana Ranaut’s mom Asha dealt with alcoholic husband, poverty; actor dedicates Panga role to her
Talking about how their mom Asha Ranaut struggled with an alcoholic husband, Rangoli Chandel tweets that sister Kangana Ranaut took inspiration from their mom for her role in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Panga.
Updated on Dec 27, 2019 04:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
An artist’s journey to try and make the world a better place
I always gave to charity, a percentage of what I made from every painting sold, and started donating my work to raise money at art auctions for different causes. But I always felt it was never enough
Updated on Nov 27, 2019 01:27 PM IST
Revati Sharma Singh
Couple poisons kids, commits suicide in Tripura; Opposition slams government over poverty
The incident has triggered a political slugfest in the state, with the CPI(M) and the Congress blaming it on unemployment and starvation, while the ruling BJP accusing the earlier Left Front rule for its alleged failure to implement poverty eradication measures.
Published on Nov 25, 2019 02:17 AM IST
Agartala | Press Trust of India
‘Charity takes away dignity, biggest blot in solving problem of poverty,’ says Goonj founder
“Charity to my mind is one of the biggest blots in terms of solving the problem. In terms of survival, it is fine and it is needed,” he said.
Updated on Nov 23, 2019 04:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Zia Haq
In India, inequality bigger challenge than poverty
The world knows this gap between the rich and the poor as the ‘10 percent’ problem, sometimes even as the ‘1 percent’ problem.
Updated on Nov 23, 2019 05:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Zia Haq, New Delhi
I saw poverty as a child. Now, I want to fight it
My aim was to work on the alleviation of poverty. After spending a considerable amount of time interacting with people living in slums, I identified unemployment and underemployment as big social challenges
Updated on Oct 25, 2019 07:56 PM IST
Atul Satija
Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo awarded Nobel Prize in Economics
Fifty-eight-year-old Banerjee was born in 1961. He studied in Calcutta University and Jawaharlal Nehru University and then did a PhD from Harvard in 1988.
Updated on Jul 10, 2020 05:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016: UN
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) was released Thursday.
Published on Jul 12, 2019 01:31 PM IST
United Nations | Press Trust of India
RBI governor says India’s economy needs to grow even faster to deal with poverty, other challenges
India is expected to post real economic growth of 7.2 percent in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, and is seeing below-target inflation even as rising oil prices add an upside risk, the governor said. Still, he added that the inflationary impact from spikes in crude -- India’s biggest import -- can be exaggerated.
Updated on Apr 13, 2019 11:32 AM IST
Bloomberg
Bihar Congress echoes Rahul’s claim of ‘surgical strike on poverty’
“Nyay promises to give Rs 6,000 to all those families whose monthly income is less than Rs 6,000. The money would be transferred to the bank account of the woman in the family.”
Published on Mar 27, 2019 11:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Subhash Pathak
Surgical strike on poverty, says Rahul Gandhi on minimum income poll promise
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said his promise of minimum income guarantee scheme is his party’s surgical strike on poverty.
Updated on Apr 25, 2020 07:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ganganagar, Rajasthan | HT Correspondent
‘Final assault on poverty’: Rahul Gandhi on ₹12K income poll promise
Rahul Gandhi said that if his party came to power at the Centre, it would ensure that India’s 20 per cent poorest families would make at least ₹12,000 every month.
Updated on Apr 24, 2020 07:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
An income redistribution plan will not end poverty
A more responsive public support system for education, nutrition, health and agriculture can be transformative
Updated on Feb 12, 2019 11:15 AM IST
Manish K Jha and Sohini Sengupta
Sound policy, not slogans will help alleviate poverty: Arun Jaitley’s dig at Opposition
In an apparent attack on the opposition, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said sound policy, not slogans will help in alleviating poverty and fulfilling aspirations of people. He said slogans have transient life and people soon realise that they cannot be implemented.
Published on Dec 19, 2018 07:48 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
International Day for Eradication of Poverty: Helping poor kids step into a bright future
Pragati Paathshala is working to nurture the lives of more than 120 slum children through moral, social, ethical and formal education in Gomti Nagar extension Lucknow.
Updated on Oct 17, 2018 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Arpan Jennifer Vimal
271 million people moved out of poverty in India: UN Development Programme
India has made momentous progress in reducing multidimensional poverty with its incidence almost halving between 2005-6 and 2015-16, climbing down to 27.5 per cent from 54.7 per cent.
Updated on Sep 21, 2018 09:31 AM IST
Indo Asian News Service, New Delhi | Indo Asian News Service
Education, healthcare can win global war on poverty: Goalkeepers report
One billion people worldwide have come out of poverty since 2000, but rapid population growth in the world’s poorest countries threatens to slow or even reverse the decline, according to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers: The Stories Behind the Data 2018 released on Tuesday.
Published on Sep 19, 2018 07:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Sanchita Sharma
With no money for tractors or oxen, UP girls pull plough at their field while father tills land
While poverty-stricken 60-year-old Acheylal Aharwar tills his land, his two daughters Ravina, 13 and Shivani, 10, are forced to pull the plough every morning in Badagaon village of UP’s Jhansi district.
Updated on Jul 01, 2018 01:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Pankaj Jaiswal
Woman with 18 children says ‘fertility fame’ did nothing to end poverty
Bissar of Haryana village become a curiosity show of sorts after she was featured in a Hindi media. Headlines didn’t end her family’s hardscrabble life.
Updated on Jun 14, 2018 03:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gurgaon | Leena Dhankhar
Nearly half of Afghan children are not in school due to war, poverty: UN
Afghan girls remain more likely to miss out on a formal education, making up 60 percent of the 3.7 million children aged between seven and 17 not at school
Updated on Jun 03, 2018 04:46 PM IST
Associated Press, Kabul | Associated Press
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