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 Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, earlier known as Dhara Nagari, has rich cultural heritage and is predominantly known due to its association with Raja Bhoj. It has also a rich tribal heritage and was a place of learning. In order to raise the standard of living of the families …
Encouraged by the success of its check dams that have helped increase the water level in the campus area, Jawaharlal Nehru University has submitted a proposal to the Union Ministry of Water Resources for introducing rooftop harvesting on the campus and in adjoining residential areas. It was to check the …
Over 14 lakh persons in rural and urban Punjab are still living below the poverty line, the Minister of State for Planning, Mr S.B. Mookherjee, informed the Rajya Sabha. Quoting the National Sample Survey estimates of 1999-2000, he said the average monthly per capital expenditure of those below the poverty …
The quality of public service in Orissa is bad. The users are unhappy with the behaviour of doctors, paramedics and school teachers, as alos the quality and quantity of water and raions. This was disclosed by a recent survey report prepared by the Public Affairs Centre (PAC), a Bangalore based …
The problem of hunger, though more or less eradicated, could re-emerge in parts of the country unless the food economy is overhauled completed, KC Pant, Deputy Commission, said. He said the progress in food production had resulted in a gradual dilution of the focus on agriculture.
The Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) raised the monthly quota of ration for the poorest of the poor under the Antodaya scheme to 35 kg per family. It also approved the Rs 535-crore Centrally-sponsored scheme for livestock health and disease control during the 10th Plan, according to an official …
Believe it or not, India's tiniest state of Goa has just 4.4% of its population in poverty, going by official figures. Besides, a couple of expat oriented and commercially important regions
Experts have said survey results indicating a decline in poverty and unemployment between 1999-2000 and 2000-01 should be viewed with caution. They said differences in the designs of the 55th and 56th National Sample Surveys may account for the perceived improvement in these figures rather than any real change in …
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar has said the controversial 2400 MW Tehri Hydel project should not be built unless the affected people get suitably rehabilitated, Patkar, who was in Dehradun in connection with a Desh Bachao Yatra, said she would go to Tehri to show her solidarity and support …
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi announced that the government would identify five poorest families in each village and uplift them from below poverty line and enhance their living standard. Addressing a function after dedicating a Panchayat
Labour's pledge to eradicate child poverty received a blow yesterday when Whitehall figures showed the government in danger of missing a key target of lifting more than a million children above the breadline by 2005. Although child poverty has fallen by 400,000 since the government set the goal in 1998, …
The work for the new Anjarakkandy drinking water supply project, envisaged by the Pondicherry administration to provide drinking water to its Mahe region, will start shortly, the Minister for Health and Labour, Mr E Valsaraj, said.
Karnataka has failed to respond favourably to Andhra Pradesh's request for release of water from Almatti reservoir to meet the drinking water needs of the lower riparian State, the Major Irrigation Minister, Mr K Srihari, told the Assembly.
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 Rajasthan hasn't been on target. Mr Tayaab Hussain, Minister for Rural Development in Rajasthan, seems a worried person …
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 supposed to help, according to a study by a World Bank economist.
With water level in Vaigai dwindling every passing day, Madurai city in Tamil Nadu and its peripheries are likely to face a major water crisis this summer. Though the district administration and Madurai Corporation have taken "advance action" to ease out the problem and forwarded proposals to the government, drought …
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 programmes in the Tenth Five Year Plan than in thhe earlier one. The rural development ministry, which is …
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 future. In his valedictory speech to the National People's Congress, Zhu also announced an infrastructure spending bond issue of Rmbl …
