Poverty
What is Universal base income? Why it was suggested and what are its advantage?
Universal basic income (UBI) is a model for providing all citizens of a country or other geographic area with a given sum of Money, regardless of their income, Resources or EMPLOYMENT status. The purpose of the UBI is to prevent or reduce POVERTY and increase Equality among citizens. It is one of the kind of … Read more
Ethics In International Funding
Ethics in international funding Historically speaking, internationalisation has been linked to commerce, but the advent of trade predates international trade, as we know it today. To this end, it is interesting to note how, right from the very beginning, the spread of rules and customs often took on a near sacred character in … Read more
Chipko movement and Maiti Movement
Chipko Movement Chipko movement, also called Chipko andolan, nonviolent social and ecological movement by rural villagers, particularly Women, in India in the 1970s, aimed at protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging. The movement originated in the Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh (later Uttarakhand) in 1973 and quickly spread throughout the Indian Himalayas. The … Read more
Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is a composite measure of poverty that accounts for various deprivations that people experience in their daily lives. It was developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The MPI is calculated for each country by taking into account three dimensions … Read more
Imperialism and colonialism in Asia and Africa
Imperialism is a state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. Because it always involves the use of power, whether military force or some subtler form, imperialism has often been considered morally reprehensible, and the term is frequently … Read more
National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013: A Landmark towards Food for All
National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013: A Landmark towards Food for All The right to food is a fundamental human right, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized by various international conventions. However, achieving food security, which encompasses access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food for all, remains a significant challenge for … Read more
Ethics and Human Values
Human Values Human values have been employed in so distinctively different ways in human discourse. It is often said that a person has a value or an object has a value. Value is “a concept explicit of implicit, distinctive of an individual or characteristics of a group of those desirable traits which influence the selection … Read more
Family Welfare Programmes and Population Control
India was the first nation to launched a family planning programme in 1952. Though the birth rate started decreasing, it was accompanied by a sharp decrease in death rate, leading to an overall increase in Population.The early concept of population policy covered both mortality and fertility and did not exclusively focus on fertility. There was … Read more
Agenda 21
Agenda 21: A Blueprint for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century Introduction Agenda 21, a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable development, emerged from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, also known as the Earth Summit. This landmark document, adopted by 178 nations, laid out a framework for achieving … Read more