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India rural development report 2012-13
<p>Sanitation continues to remain India's biggest failure with a large proportion of the nation's rural population still defecating in the open says this India Rural Development Report 2012-13</p>
<p>Sanitation continues to remain India's biggest failure with a large proportion of the nation's rural population still defecating in the open says this India Rural Development Report 2012-13</p>
Poverty continues to be a major concern in Asia despite the region’s high economic growth and rapid rural transformation. Most of the poor live in areas where natural resource conditions are suboptimal
Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania in Africa, as well as India have the highest zoonotic disease burdens, with widespread illness and death finds this new global study mapping human-animal diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever.
This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks. The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people;
<p>Cash transfers are now suggested by many as a silver bullet for addressing the problems that plague India’s anti-poverty programmes. This article argues instead for evidence-based policy and informed public debate to clarify the place, prospects and problems of cash transfers in India.
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu has promised to give the same push to agiculture that he had given the IT sector in his earlier stint as Andhra Pradesh chief minister.
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/land1.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 164px; margin: 7px; float: left;" />For millions of people living in the world’s
The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turn around in employment growth in rural India after a phase of
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The 2009-10 budget could see the integration of agricultural activities and rural development schemes not only because they helped to prevent the global slowdown from hitting the rural economy but also because the two sectors appear more likely to lift the country out of the rut.
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Responding to the Supreme Court order on rotting foodgrain, the government on Thursday decided to release an additional 2.5 million tonnes of foodgrain to the states for distribution among the poor. The additional release of foodgrain, however, will be only for the next six months.
After multiple headwinds dampened growth in 2017, a nascent rebound in economic activity in Kenya is gaining momentum. Notwithstanding the projected rebound in economic activity risks are tilted to the
This paper explores the type and quality of linkages between the objective of achieving sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns, and those of poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
Microcredit/microfinance as a poverty alleviation strategy: implications for right to food and livelihoods (Note for Fourth National Convention of Right to Food and Work Campaign, August 2010).
THE World Bank has warned the planet is on track to warm by 4 degrees this century, leading to more extreme heat waves, lower crop yields and increased flooding, possibly as early as 2060. In a report
<p>Surveys and interviews were used to understand community resilience in forest-dependent communities facing climate change in Cameroon. Surveys of 232 individuals showed a diversity of formal and informal
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has adversely affected harvesting of Rabi crop in the Gangetic belt as labourers are busy digging ponds, leaving farmers high and dry. In some places the labourers have even jacked up their rates, saying they will work in fields only if they get more than Rs 100 per day as wage.
High levels of investments are required to unleash the potential of agriculture for sustainable development and poverty reduction in developing countries, but low public budgetary allocations to the sector
THERE'S a twist to the jumbo debt waiver saga, in so far as West Bengal farmers go. Even as bankers are close to drawing up the final list of eligible farmers, it has become apparent that nearly half of the farm loan defaulters in West Bengal are likely to find themselves excluded from the debt-waiver scheme as loans taken prior to March 1997 are not being considered under the package. The situation is unique in West Bengal as a majority of defaulted farm loans transpired before March 31, 1997, and these loans were never been restructured unlike in other states.