Synopsis
Through its sophisticated social protection system with schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and Public Distribution System (PDS) that target uplifting the poorest of the poor, India has offered lessons in providing existential security to the most vulnerable.
The pandemic has set global social progress behind by several years and exposed new groups of urban-dwelling people with higher education to the risks of descending into poverty, thereby changing the poverty profile. It has also halted the sustained yet uneven progress towards reducing gross inequalities and poverty eradication as per the Sustainable Development Goals. Regions prone to armed conflict and disasters due to climate change had
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