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 | Only 16% public education funding goes to poorest 20% learners: UNICEF reportThe report was taken looking at the government's spending on pre-primary to secondary education in 102 countries | |
 | This 23-year-old LSE graduate won the Diana Award, along with two other awards in a week. Here's her storyPalak Sharma co-founded the Green Governance Initiative, a programme to train young people to work on Sustainable Development Goals and connect them with lawmakers to implement their ideas | |
 | Poverty plight: Afghanistan sees rise in number of children employed in hazardous jobsAfghanistan is considered the worst place to be a child, as 4 million children are out of school and 2 million are working as child labourers, as estimated by international organisations | |
 | Nobel Laureate Dr Esther Duflo joins Krea University’s Governing CouncilShe was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics along with Dr Abhijit Banerjee and Dr Michael Kremer for developing an innovative experimental approach to alleviating global poverty | |
 | TN think-tank wants khadi uniforms for schools across the country to lift handloom, khadi workers out of povertyThere are around 45 lakh handloom workers across the country with each state having its unique handloom and khadi clothing line, CPDS Director said | |
 | What The FAQ: What is multidimensional poverty and why do we need a National Multidimensional Poverty Index?NITI Aayog released the National Multidimensional Poverty Index baseline report which is very telling of the state-wise poverty index | |
 | This Kolkata start-up's sanitary products aim to erase period poverty while also saving the environmentFabPad by childhood friends Shripriya Khaitan Dhelia and Upasana Todi Prakash donates one pad to disadvantaged girls for every 25 they sell | |
 | New Education Policy a means to fight poverty and to meet the needs of the 21st century: Prime Minister Narendra ModiThe NEP has a special feature under which sports have been made a part of mainstream education instead of extracurriculars | |
 | Over 1 billion could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to pandemic: UNThe 'High Damage' scenario anticipates that 80 per cent of the COVID-induced economic crisis would persist in 10 years' time due to loss in productivity | |
 | Braving poverty, tragedy and COVID, all 19 students of this Odisha foundation cleared NEET. This is their inspiring storyWhether it was Khirodini whose house was destroyed or Satyajit who had to strike a balance between helping with his father's work and studying, Founder of Zindagi Foundation tried to be there for all | |
 | 47 million more women, girls will be pushed into poverty in the next decade due to COVIDThe pandemic has posed a serious threat to the prospects of eradicating extreme poverty by end of this decade, but the reality is even grimmer as these projections of increased poverty rates for women | |
 | Reservation is not a poverty alleviation scheme: OBC welfare group writes to PM against ‘creamy layer’ conceptReservation is a right of representation; it is the constitutional right given to the historically discriminated backward classes, the Association wrote | |
 | Women under-represented or stereotyped in textbooks: UNESCO Global Edu Monitoring ReportThe report provides an in-depth analysis of key factors for exclusion of learners in education systems worldwide, including background, identity and ability, gender, age, location, poverty, disability | |
 | India needs GDP growth of 8 per cent to eradicate poverty: SBI Chairman Rajnish KumarAugust and September were the months that saw the worst of it but now, there is a marked improvement in the sentiments of the industrialists and investors, said Rajnish | |
 | JNU, Presidency College alumni Abhijit 'Jhima' Banerjee wins Nobel in Economics for his work to alleviate povertyHis wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were joint winners of the 2019 Nobel for Economics for their experiment-based approach that has transformed development economics |
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