-The Indian Express Gender equality is key to food security. But policymakers don’t seem to recognise that Countries globally, including India, have agreed to fulfil the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched by the UNDP in 2016 as “a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity”. Among the 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030, SDG 5...
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Half-baked efforts at poverty reduction -Aasha Kapur Mehta
-The Hindu Business LineSustainable development goals are not being taken seriously. Anti-poverty schemes are not backed by funds or commitmentIndia is a signatory to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is committed to achieving them. SDG1 aims to ?end poverty in all its forms everywhere? by 2030. It is true that poverty has declined in India. However, it is also true that an extremely large proportion of Indians suffers...
More »India's progress against multidimensional poverty -Francine Pickup
-Livemint.comThere is a growing recognition among policymakers of the need for a multidimensional approach to assess deprivationThere's been some good news for India over the last month. Three different robust, credible measures of poverty have recorded a dramatic reduction in the incidence of poverty in India. The most straightforward of these, the World Bank's estimate of the number of people living on less than $1.90 per day on a purchasing...
More »The health transition -K Srinath Reddy
-The Indian Express Progress on non-communicable diseases should not be benchmarked against sustainable development goals. In the last week of September, India’s health ministry received the prestigious UN Inter-Agency Task Force Award for “outstanding contribution to the achievement of NCD (Non-Communicable Diseases) related SDG targets”. At the same time, a Lancet paper by the monitoring group, NCD Countdown 2030, contended that India will fall short of the NCD targets pertaining to SDGS....
More »Odisha is breaking the patriarchy, one deed at a time -Ashwaq Masoodi
-Livemint.com Odisha is a front-runner in women’s land ownership, much of it owing to government policies from the 1980s. But has ownership led to empowerment? Surrounded by sun-drenched paddy fields interspersed with jackfruit and banana trees, Sanakusupadu is a hamlet in Odisha’s tribal-dominated district of Rayagada. Here, almost every married woman owns land. No matter how small the holding, land documents of the 62 households in this village bear the names of the...
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