Measuring ‘Poverty in Bundles’: A New Method to Target Poverty Reduction
by The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is a yearly publication by the UN that measures worldwide poverty levels. This year, a new way to address …
Author: Namrata Acharya
Jean Drèze: A Scholar who Integrated Research with Action in Social Science
Action-oriented research is a road less traveled in the world of academics. Often researchers are confronted with the dilemma of the need to remain objective …
Global Warming: Heat Waves Test Human Endurance in South Asia
The summer of 2022 will be remembered as a brutal season in the history of climate change. Heatwaves killed at least 90 people in India …
The Rough Road to Energy Transition in The Global South
In February 2022, the Chinese government approved the opening of three new coal mines—two in the northwestern province of Shaanxi and another in Inner Mongolia. …
India’s Covid Vaccination Capabilities: Major Supplier of Vaccines in Global South but Gaps in Own Strategies
India hosts the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturing units in the world and is expected to play a major role in providing vaccines to the Global …
The Neo-Colonialism in Development Studies
Despite the Global South being the breeding ground for research in development studies, there is a marked underrepresentation of researchers from the region in the …