Can We Eradicate Poverty By 2030?

The poverty rate in the developing world has more than halved since 1981. Back then, 52% of people in developing countries lived on less than $...

Child Health and Development Guidelines required to meet the 2030 SDGs

Millions of parents seek health care for their sick children everyday. They take them to hospitals, health cent...

Children with Stunted Growth endure Adverse Outcomes later in Life

According to a paper published by the World Bank, India has the third-highest proportion of workers stunted in ...

Change and its many manifestations in India

Everyone in the country has a mobile phone. India has more than a billion phones, second only to China. Almost 240 million people have telev...

Tackling the Problem of Acute Malnutrition

According to the Registrar General of India, in 2010, under-five mortality in India was 59 per 1,000 live birth...

Indian Households with Mobile Phone exceeds Households with Toilets

According to an article in LiveMint, data has been re...

Famished India behind Myanmar and Bangladesh on the Global Hunger Index

With one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world, India has won notoriety as one of the nutritional basket cases of the world over the past few years. Globa...

Investing in our Future

India has the world's biggest youth population, and is pinned to become home to the largest working-age population within the next two decades. A population of 1.2 billion ...

The Lack of the Land

We may be the 4th fastest growing economy in the world, but something as basic as food is still a source of worry for a majority of our people.

A survey by the Nati...