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Poverty

Ten Years On

China is about to celebrate ten years of its infrastructure building Belt and Road Initiative BRI) a symbol of its rise as a global power and a defining feature of its foreign policy which it touts as its gift to the world it claims to have created more than 420,000 lakh jobs and lifted 40 million people out of poverty.

Graded Inequality~II

Poor and developing countries need to use their natural resources even if at ‘unsustainable’ levels, because these are the only resources available for their sustenance. Many estimates have pointed out that nearly half of the world‘s population ekes out a living from degraded resources like land and forests. In the future, these resources might not be able to sustain productive livelihoods. But there is no alternative

Poverty points

A recent paper by the Brookings Institution’s Stuart M. Butler and Nehath Sheriff underlines the impact of the US’ Housing First program, which shows that providing stable housing can improve the efficacy of psychiatric and substance abuse treatment as well as aid in connecting individuals to social services.

Malnutrition & Covid-19

Covid-19 is the most contagious disease we have ever encountered. At the time of writing, the Covid-19 infected 41.5 + lakh in 187 countries/regions with deaths exceeding 284124. The sharp rise in infections and deaths has caught many countries unprepared. The dexterity with which influenza viruses change their coat proteins' can hamper the development of vaccines against them.

Money Order Economy

Most migrants live in straitened circumstances in their adopted cities, earning only enough to keep body and soul together. Lack of adequate savings and lack of a psychological sense of safety and belonging made many migrant workers attempt an exodus to their hometowns on the very day the lockdown was announced