In this report, ESCAP explores the future of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the dynamic shifts in the region’s urban landscape. It highlights the region’s demographic transformations, including population ageing, and the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inequality. The analysis covers urban areas of all sizes, …
V. K. Ramachandran, Y. Usami and Biplab Sarkar To perpetuate a system that assigns a household to a single BPL/APL category in circumstances in which poverty is multi-dimensional is not only bad economics, but unconscionable as well. The pilot surveys for the next Census of BPL (below-poverty-line) households are due …
President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday underlined the need to forge a link between the corporate world and the agriculture sector to speed up the development process in the rural areas and remove poverty.
Mumbai: At a time when the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine has been boasting about the highest-ever financial aid provided to the farmers in state through loan waiver packages in 2008-09, comes the startling revelation of how financial help to farmers at the grass roots had dwindled by 20% in 2008-09 …
BHUBANESWAR: A fact-finding team of the BJP today claimed that Nanda Nayak of Golapada village under Bhanjanagar block in Ganjam district committed suicide due to crop loss and loan burden. The team led by BJP Krushak Morcha president Maheswar Sahu visited Golapada yesterday to probe the reason behind Nayak
Mumbai: In a short span of 12 days, 25 farmers have committed suicide in the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha, thus exposing the failure of the state government in tackling the agrarian crisis effectively. The farmers
This paper examines the incidence and dynamics of poverty over a period of three decades from 1970 to the end of the 1990s. We use a national rural panel household data set, based on household surveys conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research in three rounds in 1970, …
Governments across the world have done well collectively to lift 227 million people out of slum conditions, surpassing the Millennium Development target by 2.2 times. The achievements of China and India in particular have been spectacular, commends the UN-HABITAT report on the
Right now, the situation in Lalgarh is grave. The combined military offensive has got a nod from the central and state governments; it means we have to be worried about ghastly horror, concerned about more suffering and loss of lives. Since 18 June 2009, the entire area has been under …
In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the predominance of small and marginal farms and a growing feminisation of agriculture, this paper argues for a new institutional approach to poverty reduction, agricultural revival and social empowerment. It makes a strong case for a group approach to …
This paper explores the possibility of a simple method for the identification of households eligible for social assistance. In exploring alternative approaches for identifying a
The authors revisit the findings of their past research on poverty and growth in India in the light of the 14 rounds of the National Sample Survey now available for the period since economic reforms began in 1991. They find that the rate of poverty reduction has increased in the …
Grain Production To Be Down 8%, Oilseeds 5% & Sugarcane 11.8% Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI EVEN as Congress puts the onus of controlling food prices on food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, the latest growth estimates for the farming sector present a gloomier picture and is expected to add …
About 22 lakh families will be covered under 100 days wage employment initiative under he National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Andhra Pradesh by March. This was informed by the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, who is a three-day visit to New Delhi. According to the road map for …
A rigorous analysis of the institutional structures underlying Grameen I yields some interesting economic insights. The essential idea is that an appropriate institutional design can help in tapping into the informational pool available at the local level among the borrowers themselves and something that may not be accessible to outsiders. …
Madhura Swaminathan The poverty line that the Tendulkar Committee proposes depends on reduced calorie consumption, and fails to provide for reasonable household expenditures on schooling and health. For some years, the Government of India has been under pressure to change the norms for calculating the official poverty line. Current norms …
