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THE families of more than 300,000 under-16s are benefitting from the Scottish Child Payment, as calls are made for the payment to be increased.

To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations.

Report card on Modi govt: Slow response to inequality, attacks on democracy, lack of transparent governance. Report highlights reduced parliamentary sittings, limited access to data, rising communalism, attacks on journalists, citizens charged under draconian laws, inequality, rising multidimensional poverty, corruption & irregularities in govt.

A ‘BLEAK’ report has found one in six Scots are seeking advice for food insecurity.

Numerous research studies have suggested that children from a single-parent family are worse off than those who have two parents at home. These findings chime with decades of stigma that have painted coming from a single-parent home as undesirable.

Bihar seeks SCS to address poverty revealed by Caste-based Survey. SCS was introduced in 1969 to assist development of disadvantaged States. Five factors considered before granting SCS. Centre-State funding of schemes divided in 90:10 ratio for SCS States. Bihar meets most criteria, but lacks hilly terrain. Raghuram Rajan Committee suggested…

Officials rescued a 1.5-month-old female infant from a couple in Karbook Gomati district. The father confessed to have sold the baby due to poverty. The family is from an indigenous community in Haludia village, Khowai district. The area is under the jurisdiction of the Tribal Autonomous District Council led by…

Democrat Don L Scott has come back from a felony conviction 30 years ago to lead the state legislature and fight for his constituents

Exclusive: More than a quarter of households headed by someone aged 50 or above from a Bangladeshi or Pakistani background are living in poverty compared with white peers

There is a poverty crisis in the UK. But when outlining his 110 growth measures aimed at getting “the British economy working” during his autumn statement, the chancellor’s measures to tackle the cost of living crisis were limited to economic support payments focused on short-term wins.

In October 2015, the Telangana government made a grand announcement about Dignity Housing, a scheme to distribute two-bedroom (2BHK) houses with an aim of providing affordable and quality housing to the poor. A total of 2.93 lakh houses were to be built by 2023 and handed over to people below…