The Modi government is gutting the rural job “guarantee,” fulfilling a longstanding demand of the most rapacious sections of ...

Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) entitled every rural household to demand up to 100 days of paid manual work each year at a ...

Small loans help rural women boost their incomes Loan sharks traditionally dominate village credit markets Microfinance, financial literacy fight informal lenders NARELA, India, Dec 7 (Thomson Reuters ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

Meanwhile, India ranked 102 out of 123 countries, i.e., in the “serious” category, on the Global Hunger Index, according to ...

India’s beef debate is about power, not faith – who eats well, who goes hungry, who trades, who profits, and who is punished.

Millions of rural Indian women are transforming their lives and communities by becoming 'Lakhpati Didis,' surpassing Rs 1 lakh in annual household income through self-help groups. This initiative, ...

India’s rural employment landscape is undergoing a historic transformation. After nearly 20 years of supporting millions of ...

Walter S. DeKeseredy receives funding from West Virginia University.. I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on ...