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.
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.
Ahead of the visit of the President, and all European Union Commissioners, to India in February 2025, the Economist ran a leader “How India became an unexpected role model for Europe,” that compared India favourably with the European Union (EU), which according to the Economist, had a ‘sclerotic economy’ and ‘gridlocked politics.’
"Extreme poverty is not something to be taken casually. Employing it for propaganda is unacceptable,” the signatories said in the letter on Thursday.
In a May 2017 letter to The Economist, I highlighted India's vernacular digital divide - how e-commerce companies limit themselves to English-speaking Indians while ignoring 1.2 billion potential vernacular users.
In March this year the USCIRF (US Commission on International Religious Freedom) released its annual report.
BoB Essential Commodity Index (BoB ECI) has increased at the fastest pace since August 2023 by 5.9 per cent in March 2024, on YoY basis and by 0.4 per cent, on a sequential basis, says Dipanwita Mazumdar, Economist, Bank of Baroda.
Writing for The Economist on India’s diaspora in June this year, Avantika Chilkoti mentioned that the Indian diaspora is the largest in the world.
What does the Ukraine war have to do with Brazil? On the face of it, perhaps not much. Yet, in his first six months in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – now in his third non-consecutive term – has expended much effort trying to bring peace to the conflict in eastern Europe.
Well-known economist and former member of the Planning Commission, Abhijit Sen, passed away late on Monday night following a heart attack.
Abhijit Banerjee, during an address at the Kolkata Literary Meet, also said the priority of the government should be on refinancing the banking sector, which is in 'doldrums'.
