Tools like the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) that use methodologies, such as Alkire-Foster, emphasise analysing interconnected deprivations for policy relevance (D’Attoma and Matteucci 2024).

Uganda has made significant progress in reducing income poverty over the past three decades, yet multidimensional poverty remains widespread, affecting nearly one in four households, according to the ...

Junior Finance minister says the government, together with development partners, is developing targeted interventions to ...

The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows that corruption is a dangerous problem in every part of the world, but change for the better is happening in many countries. Research also reveals ...

This shift has drawn criticism from the Congress, non-BJP ruled states, and MGNREGA experts, who say it weakens the 100-day ...

We were there with a delegation of international forestry specialists and agronomists to attend a Food Festival last month, ...

Is India’s poverty rate 5% or 24%? A debate over poverty lines, data transparency, and Parliament’s questions reveals how ...

Uttarakhand has witnessed more than 50 percent rise in GSDP growth as its annual growth rate is projected more than eight percent while poverty in the Himalayan state is down by 2.8 percent in the ...

In this paper, a conceptual framework for AI-enabled digital poverty mapping is formulated to promote Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1), which aims at eliminating poverty. The framework combines ...

A total of 15 New York school districts had poverty rates of over 30% in 2024, according to new data. The Jamestown City School District in Western New York had the highest poverty rate in the state ...