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 World Bank has approved two loans for India, totalling $289.2 million. The loans, routed through its soft lending window of International Development Association, are meant for rural poverty alleviation in Rajasthan and Uttar pradesh and would be used for two water reconstructing projects.
In line with its deregulation of the country's downstream oil industry, Nigeria is inviting bids to build independent oil refineries. The new private refineries' licensing programme is aimed at reducing the country's dependence on imported fuel. According to guidelines, prospective refinery operators will first have to pay a non-refundable us …
"too small, too slow, or too poorly rooted.' This is how the recently released 19th annual edition of Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2002 report describes the steps taken in the 1990s for an ecologically resilient world. Considering the dismal scenario, the document recommends "a global war on poverty …
The Punjab government has decided to file a review petition over the Supreme Court's decision on the SYL issue. Advocate General of Punjab J. S. Mattewal said the government was already preparing a draft of the review petition and it would be ready in about three weeks. The state will …
The Supreme Court direction to the Punjab government to complete the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal within one year failing which it will be the responsibility of the Union government has put the state government in a fix leaving it with o option but to challenge the very basis of …
Some area of the land close to the Hirehalla barrage is reported to have caved in though its not even three weeks since the barrage was inaugurated. If in the coming days the reservoir were to become full, there is the danger of the dam itself collapsing, District Janata Dal …
The world's highest energy consuming country, the us , has done little to promote renewable energy. Being one of the major emitters of heat trapping gases like carbon dioxide, the us would be expected to demonstrate some more moral responsibility towards promoting alternative energy resources. Excessive dependence on fossil fuels …
There has been a large-scale widening of the gap in the health status of rich and poor populations in the former Soviet Union and former Eastern European bloc. This was reported in a new report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Among other things, the study indicates that every …
A four-day meeting under the joint auspices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to discuss threadbare the Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme (PRSP) is scheduled on January 14 in Washington.
While the overall poverty figures have dropped sharply over the 1990s, the marginalised section of the society has fallen way behind in the race for economic development. The difference between the overall and the scheduled tribe poverty figures has widened over the period between 1993-94 and 1999-2000, indicating that the …
Negotiations over the past four years have diluted the already weak Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997. The protocol requires industrialised countries to reduce emissions of heat trapping gases like carbon dioxide to about five per cent below 1990 levels. This target is to be achieved between 2008-12. At the latest …
The People's Rights Movement (PRM) representatives at a meeting with 10 trade unions of the twin cities discussed the significance of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), currently being prepared by the government (Pakistan). The proposed downsizing in government agencies, such as Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP), was highlighted as …
...the West eats into the world's resources, leaving the developing nations and its poorest struggling against ecological degradation wreaked by the huge consumption rates. The wide gap in consumption between the rich and poor takes its toll on local and global resources. Today some 800 million people remain chronically malnourished
A new survey to determine the number of below poverty line (BPL) families in urban areas of Rajasthan will be launched on September 20. The previous survey, undertaken in 1998 in all the 183 municipal areas in the State, had listed 1.89 lakh BPL families.
Of the 100 backward and poorest districts identified by the government 38 of them are in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. The broad parameters adopted by the committee to analyse the causes of backwardness, included indicators of deprivation (poverty ration) and social and economic infrastructure.
While poverty ratios for larger states in the country have attracted adequate attention, those for the smaller states and union territories are truly bizarre. The Economic Survey 2001-2001 illustrates why this is so in the footnotes at the end of its table on state-level poverty ratios. Assam's poverty ratio is …
The poverty line in a number of states is being reworked and the results show the situation in India's smaller states and Union Territories may be significantly different from what has been assumed so far. Take the case of the newly created states. The percentage of people below the poverty …
IMF would seek the continuity of its Poverty Reduction Growth Facility Programme (PRGF) (Pakistan) with the political government assuming office after October elections. In this regard, an official sent by the Managing Director, IMF, is arriving with the IMF review mission to discuss it with the high-ups of the present …
As one of the least developed countries Bangladesh has yet to ensure the elimination of poverty. Almost half of the population remain in an environment of uncertainty about their living. They have no source of income, with which they can meet their day to day requirement. Many of the poor …
