India’s richest more than double their fortunes during pandemic — Oxfam – BusinessWorld Online
… have more than doubled their fortunes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis that’s ravaged the country and worsened poverty, …
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China aims to create an alternative regional bloc in South Asia
Observers say Nepal needs to tread carefully as the Beijing-led Poverty Alleviation Centre minus India is part of Chinese attempts to expand its influence …
India supercharged its economy 30 years ago. COVID unraveled it in months
… economy in a transformation that eventually pulled about 300 million out of poverty, fueling one of the biggest wealth creations in history. Then came …
Rural India sinks deeper into debt as COVID-19 wipes out work
… to feed her family of seven in a remote corner of northern India where the novel coronavirus is compounding old problems of rural debt and poverty.
India’s billionaires got richer while coronavirus pushed millions of vulnerable people into poverty
India has been hobbled by an economic slump and a brutal wave of coronavirus that new research shows pushed millions of people into poverty. (FILE …
How trade spats increase poverty: the India-Nepal Episode of 2015
Clustering of people around the poverty line and dependence on net food imports are likely causes for some provinces being more severely affected …
Global recovery strong but uneven: WB
In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, out today, the 189-country anti-poverty agency has said India accounts for most of the upgrade as …
Hunger stalks India’s poor in pandemic double blow
NEW DELHI – Rasheeda Jaleel lives in fear that she may not be able to feed her seven children as millions of Indian families are forced into poverty by …
Bodies of COVID-19 victims among those dumped in India’s Ganges -gov’t document
… the alarming practice, which it said may stem from poverty and fear of the disease in remote areas. Images of corpses drifting down the Ganges river, …
Together, we shall overcome
Day after day our screens are filled with harrowing images of hospitals overrun, lines of people waiting desperately for a hospital bed or oxygen for a loved one. As the number of cases keeps climbing, the threat inches ever closer to home, family memb…
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