カテゴリー: Poverty
Modi’s Ayushman Bharat scheme put hospital treatment within reach of tens of millions of Indians for the first time. But the government’s unpaid bills may derail the reformsWhen the world’s biggest healthcare scheme works, it allows tens of thousands o…
Decision made after attempts to raise more funds had been unsuccessful, agency tells authoritiesFood rations for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been slashed in half by the World Food Programme, days after refugees in Kenya protested against a red…
With plenty of sunlight to drive their pumps instead of costly diesel, harvesting salt costs a third of what it used to and has made life for workers much easierIn the expansive salt marshes of the Little Rann of Kutch the bleakness of the sunburnt, tr…
The Jubilee 2000 saw $130bn of debt written off, and yet we now find ourselves in a renewed global debt crisis, says Maria Finnerty of CafodThe Guardian is right to identify the global sovereign debt crisis as one of the most critical impediments to su…
Researchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase their incomeOwning a pair of reading glasses might help people increase their earnings by a third, according to new research.The study, conducte…
Close to half the crisis-hit country’s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell here of their struggle as Unicef warns of a blighted generation For more than a year now, Anne Roshel has had no milk to give her two childre…
In India’s most progressive state, food for hospital patients and visitors feeds the hungry and helps create an ‘ethos of equality’It’s a cliche that food cooked with love is the best, but in Kerala thousands of women have proved that cooking with a se…
Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children workSome of the world’s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the planta…
Programme spent £2.7bn between 2016 and 2021 but is fragmented and lacks a clear rationale, report saysBritain’s aid programme to India is fragmented, lacks a clear rationale and does little to counter the negative trends in human rights and democracy …
As a new Guardian documentary explores the impact of one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, we speak to some of those who, like millions across the country, were left poorer and more vulnerable than everWhen Ram Yadav fled India’s strict countrywide l…