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 …
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 millions of unemployed and low-income farmers. The national budget, released on the second day of the National People's Congress, appears in line …
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 shows exactly how the various food-related poverty alleviation schemes are faring in the country. Former secretary, Planning, …
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 Attorney General Soli J Sorabjee to file a response to the same. While asking the Centre …
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 additional budgetary expenditure on this account would be Rs 507 crore in 2003-04. Jaswant Singh said …
across the world, biotechnology's reach has increased by 12 per cent in 2002, with the land under transgenic crops amounting to 58.7 million hectares. So states a report of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (isaaa), a non-profit organisation with regional centres across the world. 2002 was …
Since 2001, the Chhattisgarh government has allowed private traders to directly purchase tendu leaf from Dantewada district in the state. Reason: collection had been steadily declining due to the influence of Naxalites in this region. Minor forest produce (MFP) is one of the main grounds of the Naxal-government conflict. A …
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 quarters of the current financial year is concerned. The review was held in the last week of last …
Nearly one lakh people are yet to get their ration cards under the below poverty line (BPL) scheme launched by the Government. These one lakh people are now finding themselves between the devil and the deep sea as a war of words is underway between the Union and the State …
In a replay of the McNamara years, across the developing world the Bretton Woods institutions have been modifyign their rhetoric to make poverty the centrepiece of the Comprehensive Development Framework that ostensibly guides their lending practices. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are supposed to exemplify this new approach.
The Delhi government claims that it is spending thousands and thousands of crores of taxpayers money on 'poverty alleviation' but nowhere do we see the smallest sign of this happening. Wherever you see poor people you will hear stories of the daily harassment they face from policemen and officials.
The Delhi government claims that it is spending thousands and thousands of crores of taxpayers money on 'poverty alleviation' but nowhere do we see the smallest sign of this happening. Wherever you see poor people you will hear stories of the daily harassment they face from policemen and officials.
Designing a reusable space vehicle, developing an advanced version of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, launching an unmanned mission to the moon and building civil aircraft are all part of the aerospace goals India hopes to achieve before 2020.
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 for sheep and animal husbandry today said that the govrnment was committed to work for the upliftment of the poor …
Here's the good news. You can uncap a bottle of any of the brands of packaged drinking water and drink to your heart's content. Nothing will happen to you. You will not feel nausea, or get the urge to vomit. You will not feel dizzy and your skin will not …
a survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line (bpl) households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society groups under the 'right to food' campaign. They are objecting to the exercise on two counts: firstly, the criteria used for poverty estimation are incorrect; …
Why is it so difficult to control HIV/AIDS after all we know? The disease is linked with immorality and promiscuity. People don't want to accept these issues or discuss perceptions of them. As many people have never heard about hiv, they do not know how to avoid it. There is …
A massive expansion of the Antyodaya Anna Yojana appears to be on the anvil with the BJP making it the core of its wish list to the finance minister. The BJP, which is in the process of finalising its priorities in the budget, will ask Mr Jaswant Singh to bring …
