Welfare

Robodebt teaches us that even simple automated decision-making systems come with the biases of the people, systems and policies that conceive them

The socio-economic crisis brought about by COVID-19 reveals cracks in existing social welfare systems and the need for radical transformation

India’s recently extended lockdown for COVID-19 is particularly difficult for the country’s elderly, but there are steps than can be taken to ease the burden

India’s old system of subsidised crop prices for farmers and the needy is proving its worth at a time of economic crisis

As Indians prepare to vote in the general election, a campaign promise could bring wage equality to the tens of millions of India’s poorest people

Former Deputy Prime Minister Brian Howe revisits Professor Ronald Henderson’s seminal work on poverty, and explains why the case for a basic income is relevant today now more than ever