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 …
Despite repeated assurances by successive Governments to eradicate poverty, over 40 per cent of the total population of Assam are still living below the poverty line, that too according to an estimate made by the Government of India.
The World Bank claims that despite the largest "concentration" of the poor in the world,India has "wasted" considerable anti-poverty funds. The bank called upon India to urgently develop a new anti-poverty strategy.
Ever since the inception of Bangladesh in 1972 its politics have been featured by several types of seemingly endemic conflict, some of which have been associated with either periodic outbursts of violence or prolonged relatively low-key armed confrontations. The objective of the present study is that of placing the different …
According to Bangkok gemologists, hundreds of dangerously radio-active gemstones are circulating in the Asian markets and some have even found their way into finished jewellery. Tests conducted by radiologists in the Thai capital have revealed radiation levels in some stones were more than 50 times the us safety limit. Experts …
this book could not have come at a more opportune time when the Narmada and Sardar Sarovar debate is high on the priority list of the nation and the general issue of development versus displacement is nowhere near being resolved or even reaching a consensus. From the mid 1980s the …
Study :Poverty in both rural and urban India has come down significantly between 1987-88 and 1993-94, according to an official study. There has been a decline in the incidence of poverty in the country between 1987-88 and 1993-94, irrespective of the poverty line or price index used, M D Asthana, …
Incidence of poverty has come down significantly in both urban and rural areas of the country. This is the conclusion of a study organised by the department of statistics that used all methods of estimation to determine poverty levels between 1987-88 and 1993-94.
The country is to go ahead with a much-delayed plan for a nuclear power plant, said officials of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission ( baec ) in Dhaka. The plan has been in the pipeline for more than 35 years. Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the Bangladeshi prime minister, gave her approval …
Seven scientists have been awarded this year's prestigious Ranbaxy Science Foundation awards for excellence in different fields of medical research. They include a husband and wife team and an Indian working in the US. The awardees are: Minnie M Mathan and V I Mathan, professor of pathology and professor of …
A Kuwait-funded irrigation project in northwest China's Ningxia, has been progressing smoothly with first-phase sub projects to start trial operation next month. The whole project, China's biggest aid-the-poor water conservation undertaking, is to open up 130,000 hectares of irrigated land within six years.
Nearly a third of Americans experienced severe poverty at some time between 1993 and 1995, but for most people it was transitory, according to a study released by the census bureau. The report shows that the overall proportions of the US population living below the poverty line remained constant at …
a two-day seminar held in the first week of November at Delhi on disposal of hospital wastes concluded that while its destruction was of paramount importance, incinerating such wastes was no solution. It was also brought to light that a mere 10 per cent of total hospital wastes are hazardous …
The threat of low crop yields in North Korea may lead to outside food aid to avert widespread starvation. North Korean officials are concerned whether food aid will be linked with the ongoing talks with South Korea and the us to reduce tension in the Korean peninsula. North Korea's foreign …
A US $12.5 million project that focuses on poverty alleviation, environmental protection and improving the quality of education has been launched in Pakistan. The project, instituted by the United Nations Development Programme, will create teacher training and resource centres to improve the quality of teaching and of primary and secondary …
when a 16-year-old boy was treated for bubonic plague in Madagascar two years ago, the scientific community was unaware of what was in store. Some French researchers have recently published their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine . They say the strain of Yersinia pestis , the bacterium …
> this book is one of the eight books in the Worldwatch Insti-tute's Environment Alert series and raises some contem-porary issues concerning global security. The first part of the book deals with the stresses on society in the post cold war era and describes the newly emerging realities after the …
prattipati Shivshankar Rao from the National Institute of Oceanography ( nio ), Goa, has become the first Indian scientist to reach the ocean floor 3,680 metres under the sea level. On invitation from the Rutgers University, usa , Rao joined a three-week long diving cruise expedition into the depths of …
