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 …
With only 3.48 per cent of the population living below the poverty line (BPL) in Jammu and Kashmir, a major thrust is being laid on nutrition, as the state is deemed to become the first in the country to have a negligible poverty line by 2007. Disclosing this, eminent agriculture …
The Centre has agreed to provide Rs 630 crore to the Jammu and Kashmir Government as grant for the execution of the cash-starved state's biggest power project under execution at Baglihar. The Central Government has agreed to provide the grant for the execution of the 450 mw Baglihar hydel project …
a commonly used spice might be the wonder cure for ringworm infection. Researchers from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, have found that oil made of Trachyspermum ammi (ajwain) can effectively cure ringworm infections. Ringworm is a common fungal skin infection characterised by scaly, itchy lesions on the skin and scalp. …
pesticides in soft drinks On August 5, six months after releasing a study on the presence of pesticide residues in packaged drinking water, the Pollution Monitoring Laboratory of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) made public its report of finding pesticides in 12 leading cold drinks brands in India …
http://www.inequality.org "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.' This website, maintained by a network of concerned journalists, writers and researchers headquartered in New York, starts off with a quote by Louis …
This paper presents and discusses primary data from a survey of 1,070 households in four poor settlements in Mumbai comprising slum-and pavement-dwellers and squatters on the living environment and health conditions. The study attempts to examine the consequences of socio-economic and environmental factors in terms of income, literacy, sanitation and …
The Kerala Pollution Control Board has been directed by the state government to investigate whether toxic materials are present in the sludge supplied as fertilisers to farmers by Coca-Cola from its plant in Palakkad district.
An Asian Development Bank (ADB) team headed by Geert van der Linden, special advisor to the Bank president, has concluded discussions with the officials of the finance ministry and Planning Commission with regard to progress of the poverty reduction strategy of the ADB adopted in the year 1999. The team …
Like two wary advertisaries discovering a common interest, the United Nations and the private sector are beginning to forge a joint approach to tackling global poverty. Last week, Ernestor Zedillo, the former Mexican president, and Paul Martin, an aspirant prime minister of Canada, announced at the UN in New York …
A delegation of farmers from Malaprabha river basin submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister S.M. Krishna urging the Karnataka State Government to link Mahadai, Kalasa, Banduri, Pootla and Halathara rivers to the Malaprabha river. The delegation was lead by legislators B.R. Yavagal, Subhas Koujalagi, N.V. Patil, B.B. Chimmanakatti and Water …
An ambitious externally-aided $33.2 million hill poverty-alleviation project, currently being implemented in three north-eastern states, has been hit by a major controversy over the resignation of three key officials last week and serious differences in the perception of the project management and its implementation process. Senior Finance and Accounts Officer …
The good news: there has been a perceptible decline in the number of the country's poor. The significance of this very important fact has however been lost in myriad ways, as the all-important social sector keeps lagging woefully behind every plan document and every political manifesto remain largely intentions alone. …
Abandoning the earlier formula of declaring the families with annual income less than Rs 20,000 as the ones living below the poverty line in the rural areas, the Union Government has adopted new criteria to identify such families. Under the new formula, which has been opposed by several states, a …
