Human development report 2023/2024
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
Highlighting the development activities initiated by the coalition government and lauding the efforts of the chief minister in bringing peace in Jammu and Kashmir, Yash Pal Kundal, minister of state
Planning Commission officials, who recently held a quarterly performance review of the state Plan schemes of Punjab, have gone back with a "poor opinion" as far as the performance of first two
The Antyodaya Anna Yojana will be expanded from April 1 to cover additional 50 lakh families, raising the total coverage to more than a quarter of all families living below the poverty line. The
The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Union government on an allegation that it has decided to prune the list of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families across the country. The court also directed
When the government thought that it was doing its bit for invisible India by increasing the allocation for the Antyodaya Anna Yojana in the Budget, a report submitted in the Supreme court yesterday
China's outgoing premier Zhu Rongji issued a stern warning to the next generation of leaders that the poverty and frustrations of 800 million rural residents could threaten the country's economic
Preparing for new leadership, China on Thursday proposed its lowest military spending hike in 14 years, simultaneously earmarking funds for major social security measures to provide succour to
State government estimates of the number of below poverty line families in rural areas is likely to go down sharply. Thus fewer families will be eligible for the benefits of poverty alleviation
The desperation is evident. With two years remaining and some 78 per cent of the targeted 7,000 villages yet to be covered, the World Bank supported District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP) in
The European Union's much-trumpeted Everything But Arms (EBA) policy, which provides duty-free access for imports from the world's poorest nations, has failed to so far to benefit the countries it is