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, …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to go ahead with the controversial proposal of constructing Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras at the panchayat level at a cost of Rs.10 lakh each from funds meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mgnregs). Notwithstanding the opposition against the …
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP today claimed that Jogendra Choudhury, a marginal farmer of Kamarsahi village of Jharpada gram panchayat under Kantapara block in Cuttack district committed suicide due to crop loss and loan burden. A BJP fact finding team led by general secretary of the party
This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is associated with growing inequalities that do not allow the benefits of growth to reach the poor; …
At Expense Of Poor States, Finds CAG Audit Of NRHM Spend Pradeep Thakur | TNN New Delhi: Some of the poor states in the country that were the focus of the big-ticket National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) have actually ended up being discriminated against in the Central allocation as compared …
V. Sridhar Bangalore: Karnataka maintains its status as the poorest among the four southern States, according to the data on poverty recently released by an expert committee set by the Planning Commission. The committee, headed by noted economist Suresh Tendulkar, which has determined a new methodology for estimating the extent …
Sunil Jain The 37.2 per cent poverty number put out by the expert group headed by Suresh Tendulkar last week sounds a lot less pessimistic than the 78 per cent figure of Indians living on less than Rs 20 per day put out by Arjun Sengupta. But the question is …
Estimation of poverty and poverty of estimation It used to be a quip in the 1970s that estimation of poverty in India is stymied by the poverty of estimation. The other joke was that far too many economists and statisticians had prospered trying to estimate poverty! So, we have yet …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta , P. Vaidyanathan Iyer If the poor are measured by the money they spend each month, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra show a dramatic increase in the number of people below the poverty line. As first reported by The Indian Express on Wednesday, the Suresh Tendulkar committee moved away …
Rethinking Poverty, the 2010 issue of the Report on the World Social Situation seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication. It affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking, policies and practices of recent decades towards more sustainable development- and equity-oriented policies …
This working paper attempts to assess some of the more fundamental, water-related components that influence rural livelihoods and can support rural poverty reduction. In this way, it seeks to help decision makers target investments more effectively, ensuring funds get allocated to where there is most need.
Rural Bihar is being suffocated by the control exercised by the landed gentry who own a disproportionate share of cultivable land and yet have little interest in increasing agricultural production. Those who can and do
Mumbai: International environmental activist group Greenpeace has released a report, Still Waiting, which reveals that despite growth in electricity generation and increasing carbon emissions, India's rural poor continue to be deprived of electricity. The report challenges the government's energy model and recommends a decentralised energy mix as a solution to …
BHUBANESWAR: Though Orissa is a pioneer in conferring industrial status to agriculture in 1996, it still lies far behind in fertiliser use. Even after a new agriculture policy in 2008, the fertiliser use lies at 53.2 kg per hectare though it should have been 100 kg per hectare by 2007-
SALEPUR: The State Government is insensitive to the suicides of farmers. As many as 2,631 farmers have ended their lives between 2000 and 2009 but still the government is trotting out lame explanations to hush up the issue, said Opposition Leader Bhupinder Singh. Singh was part of the team of …
There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning commission. The official poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view of this, Planning Commission set up an expert group under the chairmanship of Professor Suresh Tendulkar to examine the issue …
It was a seemingly peaceful day in April this year in Kursithana village of Bankhari block in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. Except this time around the cultivation season for Amaan Singh, a farmer, meant the end of a tether. Expecting to produce 100 quintals of wheat which would have …
