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Welcome to the official website of South Asian Institute of Development Studies (SAIDS).

South Asia is home to some 1.4 billion people - 22.2 per cent of the world population – and half the world’s poor. Around one-third of South Asian people always live with untold suffering, exploitation and deprivation. Poverty is coupled with socio-political tensions, armed insurgencies, gender discrimination and violence, child labour and an appalling inequality between the rich and the poor ...more