Analysis: India is building a women-only social safety net
Political parties across India have promised a host of new social programs exclusively for women. Is it politics or progress?
Mahima Jain
Chennai, Tamil Nadu: ‘What Has to Happen Will Happen’
In Asha Mutha's multigenerational household, the paranoia unleashed by India's first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has been replaced by fatalism of the second wave. “What has to happen will happen,” Mutha says, with a…
As India’s Credit Sector Falters, So Do Women’s Livelihoods
India’s microfinance sector promises to empower income-insecure women. But it is widening the gap between men and women’s access to opportunity.
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