Global megatrends such as income inequality, climate change, demographic shifts, technological progress, and urbanisation are shaping the future of societies. Yet, their quantitative impacts on development are neither well understood nor established. This paper examines the individual and combined effects of these global forces on poverty, using both cross-section and …
The Geneva Framework Agreement provides evidence that, after a period of doubt, the multilateral system is alive and kicking and can deliver on the real needs of all its members. The so-called Framework Agreement was adopted in Geneva on July 31, 2004. Its text sets the parameters of the future …
Having crossed another hurdle for the construction of long-pending Renuka multipurpose dam, the HP State Electricity Board has now started identification of land for rehabilitation of the families likely to be displaced from the dam site.
India is deeply committed to economic reform but improving the fortunes of its vast rural population and promoting agricultural development and infrastructure are its priorities, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has said.
The government is seriously shopping around for ways and means to precision target the mammoth Rs 25.160-crore targeted public distribution scheme (TPDS). Trimming the above poverty line (APL) consumer pie top down even while expanding the BPL pie is one of the ways that have been suggested. The suggestion is …
The central theme for the vast majority of the members of the United Nations is the challenge of development and eradication of poverty, said the Prime Minister,Dr Manmohan Singh, in his address to the General Assembly in United Nations. "Globalisation has undoubtedly brought enhanced effectiveness and efficiency in economies, integrated …
The Western Orissa Development Council (WODC) has sparked off demands for similar regional councils in various parts of the state. The latest on this front is the clamour for a Special Development Commission (SDC) for Kandhmal, arguably one of the poorest districts in the country with 82 per cent of …
The Andaman and Nicobar islands are so far away from the mainland that no one seems to bother about what is happening to the indigenous people of the island, particularly the aboriginal tribal communities that have lived on the islands for centuries. These people who have not ventured out of …
The total number of vehicles registered in Delhi has gone up to 3.88 million in 2002 as compared to 2.85 million in 1997, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan said in a written reply.
Of a total of 38 suicide deaths in Ghaziabad this year, as many as 14 have occurred as a result of the victims' inability to make ends meet, according to the police records. Social scientists say the basic syndrome that affect the victims, is quite similar to the one that …
It's a classic case of irony with its dictionary meaning. President APJ Abdul Kalam declared in Johannesburg that India would provide monetary help of Rs 50 crore to some extremely poor African countries but here in the backyard of his own country, there is a state, Bihar, where abject poverty …
Water is our planet's most precious resource and also its most pressing problem today. Its availability worldwide is assuming the proportions of a critical survival issue. United Nations had declared the year 2003 as the "International Year of Freshwater" to galvanise action on critical water problems. More than one billion …
Water shortage has been endemic for ages, despite the fact that an enormous amount of rainwater has always run waste to the sea. The present national rainwater resource is computed at 1,953 billion cubic metres, but its utilisation is only about 600 billion cubic metres. According to the projections made …
One in every 200 households in rural India and one in every 1000 households in towns go'chronically hungry', not getting enough to eat in any of the months. Since the country has about 200 million households with five persons each, the number of people going hungry must be huge. The …
Two-thirds of South Asians are living in poverty and only a redistribution of benefits of economic growth will lift them out of the rut, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official said. "On the basis of a poverty line of two dollars a day, which is no generous standard, well over …
The definition of poverty is being updated to take into account the changes in lifestyles and the consumption pattern of people over the last 30 years. Redefining poverty may result in an increase the number of people below the poverty line. In 1993-94, 36 per cent of the people were …
State Bank Governor(Pakistan) Dr Ishrat Husain asked the donor agencies to refrain from direct funding to social sector organisations for poverty reduction as they cannot go beyond certain limits without government sector support. He said that poverty in the country could not be reduced unless 6 percent growth rate was …
• Developing countries devote more than a third of their budgets on education, healthcare, water and sanitation services, but little is actually spent on the poor • The poor often pay more than the rich for the same goods and travel longer distances to avail basic services • India's richest …
In the beginning of November 2003, the us Food and Drug Administration (fda) released the findings of its risk assessment study on whether the meat and milk from cloned animals and their progeny was as safe to eat as conventionally bred livestock. It was "likely to be as safe', the …
Poverty reduction efforts should focus on Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman K C Pant said in New Delhi. Poverty projections suggested that unless attention was focussed on these states, they would account for two-thirds of the country's poor, he said.
Planning Commission deputy chairman KC Pant has said that poverty reduction efforts should focus on states having high incidence of poverty like Bihar, MP, Orissa and UP. Inaugurating the retreat on state human development report in Goa, he said the four states together accounted for two-thirds of the country's poor …
