The Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, was signed by the President and became...

These packages offer nothing for the migrant, the informal sector, the poor or even the middle class – the backbone of the Indian economy. ...

More than subsidies, loan waivers and minimum support prices, Indian farmers actually need the fundamental economics of agriculture to be f...

TN was under an obligation not to allow "impecunious and poverty-stricken farmers to resign to their fate or leave the downtrodden and the ...

Insurance companies, faced with huge claims, discounted the payout all across and genuine farmers got much less than their due; while the p...

Debt-laden Maharashtra, which is facing fund shortage to complete infrastructure projects, has given a Rs 40-crore land parcel to the MP fo...

China's top leadership has pledged resolute measures to lift the remaining 70 million poor people above poverty line by 2020 which amounted...

In contrast, wives of farmers rarely commit suicide. Sure, she does not negotiate with bank officials or the money lender.

The efforst will help in supporting India's financial inclusion agenda. It was the outcome of a three-day seminar on financial inclusion or...

Katherine Boo's excellent book about the squalor and wretchedness in Bombay has got glowing reviews from one and all.

The nearly doubling of the rural poverty threshold will make almost 130 million people eligible for various social support schemes funded b...

Hazare's success reminded the political class about the magnetic effect a fast has on the common man, who suffers hunger on a daily basis.

India's number of millionaires grew by 51 percent to 126,700 in 2009, according to US investment bank Merrill Lynch and consultants Capgemi...

Microfinance to me is simply a tool for empowering the 'bottom billion' of the world with unprecedented financial independence, if employed...

UPA mandarins face two mega-challenges in the coming days — check rising food prices and give relief to drought-stricken farmers.

As a child, RG Chandramogan witnessed the remarkable transformation of his poverty-stricken agricultural village into a busy industrial tow...

There may be disparate opinions as to how the waiving of agricultural loans will affect the finances of the country’s commercial banks.