-The Hindu There is a gap between what the goverment says on the international stage and what it does at home At the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the developed countries, which continue to be the most responsible for the destruction of the biosphere, resorted to their usual tactics of bullying the less developed world to accept higher targets for...

-Down to Earth By the end of 2020, 86 per cent people displaced across borders lived in countries with developing economies.    Forced displacements need more equitable and predictable responses, for which the global community needs to show more political will, a new report has flagged. Three years after the launch of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), the international community has yet to deliver on its promise to better share responsibility for...

-Hindustan Times India's MPI has three equally weighted dimensions, health, education and standard of living - which are represented by 12 indicators. NITI Aayog has published the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report which measured “three equally weighted dimensions” of health, education and standard of living. India's MPI has three equally weighted dimensions, health, education and standard of living - which are represented by 12 indicators of nutrition, child and adolescent mortality, antenatal care,...

-PTI/ NDTV Poverty Index: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the national Multidimensional Poverty Index measure has been constructed by utilising 12 key components which cover areas such as health and nutrition, education and standard of living. New Delhi: Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh have emerged as the poorest states in India, according to NITI Aayog's Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). As per the index, 51.91 per cent population of Bihar is poor, followed...

The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...