Nearly 49 million more people are likely to fall into extreme poverty this year due to the COVID-19 crisis and every percentage point drop in the global GDP would mean hundreds of thousands of additional children will have stunted growth, UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned, calling on countries to act immediately to ensure global food security.
The number of children living in poor households across low and middle-income countries could increase by 86 million to reach 672 million by the end of 2020 due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study.
The coronavirus pandemic could push an estimated 42-66 million children into extreme poverty and the economic downturn resulting from the outbreak could result in hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Amid the lockdown, a video surfaced on the internet in which a man in Agra can be seen collecting spilt milk from the street while dogs feed on the same.
The woman had written a letter to the CWC, saying her husband was an alcoholic and they were not able to feed their kids. She also said one of them had once eaten mud due to hunger.
Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist, and Microsoft co-founder, on Sunday praised Bihar government's progress in fighting poverty and disease in the last 20 years, saying only a few places have been able to surpass the achievements made by the state.
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) was released Thursday.
Addressing the inaugural session of the 16th Odisha Legislative Assembly, the Governor said the government will provide interest free crop loans to small and marginal farmers up to Rs 1 lakh.
Speaking at the release of a social development report titled 'Rising Inequalities in India, 2018', Singh said some regions and social groups were extremely poor and vulnerable despite various anti-poverty programmes and affirmative policies being followed.
"We will eradicate poverty in the country. This is a 'dhamaka'. No country has done this in history. There should not be a single poor person in the country," Gandhi said.
The top 0.1 per cent of earners capture more growth than all those in the bottom 50 per cent combined, says the World Inequality Report.
Government think tank Niti Aayog has envisaged a New India by 2022 which will be free from poverty, dirt, corruption, terrorism, casteism and communalism.
Arun Jaitley said the economic growth will only bring in the resources which are needed for the aim of poverty alleviation.
Arvind Subramanian has advocated the idea of a Universal Basic Income to bring down the poverty level in the country in the Economic Survey 2016-17 that was tabled in the Parliament today.
With his penury-struck parents unable to even afford his fees of Rs 2.50, the Great Khali had to drop out of school and take up a plantation job available in the village to earn Rs 5 a day at the tender age of eight.
In a clear indication of rising income inequality in the country, India's richest one per cent now hold a huge 58 per cent of the nation's total wealth – higher than the global figure of about 50 per cent, a new study said on Monday.
Engaging pre-school children from the low-income families in intensive arts programmes such as music, dance and visual arts may help lower their stress levels, a study has found. Earlier studies found that poverty plays a
Mumbai: In the latest State of the World's Children Report released in Mumbai, the UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned that 69 million children under five will die from preventable causes if the world
Climate change could effectively negate India's economic progress, pushing 45 million Indians into extreme poverty over the next 15 years, according to a World Bank report published last month.In the absence of climate change, the
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