World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Women
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Report on the state of food insecurity in rural India
This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes have been initiated by the central and state governments for achieving food security in the country.
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A new deal for displaced people: Orissa's involuntary resettlement policy
Because of its rich natural resources and the new investor friendly development policies, Orissa in recent years has become an attractive investment destination for large corporations, but the increased level of development activity has only led to displacement on a scale much larger than before.
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Community eco-sanitation toilets, India
Despite the fact that India is experiencing tremendous growth as an industrialised society, it is estimated that at least 400 million people live on or below the poverty line. The majority of these people live in the many tens of thousands of rural villages scattered around the sub-continent. Life in rural India has in many respects remained much the same for the past several hundred years.
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Corporal lab
Clinical trials sustain Ahmedabad
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Third National Family Health Survey in India: Issues, problems and prospects
The three rounds of the National Family Health Survey have generated vast amounts of data, which unfortunately have been subject to only limited critical examination by Indian research scholars, though the opposite is the case with scholars outside India.
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Women rake in moolah from plastic waste
Rampant use of plastic products and their haphazard dumping has been a matter of headache not only for the environmentalists but also for those involved in waste management. However, for the women of Sidhhipur in Lalitpur, thanks to their Suiro campaign, waste plastic material is now an eco-friendly source of income.
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Untreated morbidity and demand for healthcare in India: An analysis of National Sample Survey Data
This paper studies the problem of poor health outcomes in India from the demand side, and using the unit level data from the 60th round of the National Sample Survey analyses the determinants of not accessing medical care. This analysis is confined to persons who have reported being ill within 15 days of the survey but have not sought either public or private professional medical services.
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Country strategy for India for the period FY 2009-2012
The World Bank Group
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Child and maternal nutrition in India
Malnutrition in India has been called
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NREGA: A women's programme
Studies done by scholars like Narayanan (2008), Vijayanand (2008) and Sharif (2008) show that in spite of many limitations the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has become a women's programme. Narayanan and Vijayanand have restricted their study to one state each only, but Sharif has studied seven states.