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, …
Most of the contemporary studies of level of living and poverty concentrate only on state-level averages. In view of the growing divergence both between and within the states, disaggregated studies are necessary for accurate identification of the critical areas calling for policy intervention. In the National Sample Survey Organisation
Drawing upon a micro-study of two villages in two non-Left gram panchayats in West Bengal, this paper puts one issue in the foreground, namely, the idea and practice of local politics. Using two counter examples to prove a general point about contemporary West Bengal
PISAWADA: Baldev Makwana, 40, keenly watched the budget. A Dalit farmer from this village, 60 km from city, he wanted more. And, he seems to be let down by budget announcement. Now, only National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) is the ray of hope afloat for Baldev. Makwana owns around …
According to recent World Bank estimates, over 45 percent of India lives under the $1.25-a-day poverty line. This translates to a staggering 450 million Indians, which is more than the population of the US! The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 was designed as a novel and radical response …
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey (NSS) data, 50th round in 1993-1994 and 61st …
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India. This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a …
Farmers of Bagepalli, Gudibande and Gauribidanur taluks in Chikkaballapur district took out a protest rally against the Centre and State governments economic policies favouring the rich, on Thursday, under the aegis of Prantha Raitha Sangha. The farmers have started a 24 -hour agitation in front of the deputy commissioner
DH News Service,Bagepalli: Hundreds of labourers started on their feet to cover 45 km stretch from Bagepalli to Chikkaballapur as paadayatra to draw the attention of the government to their demands.
The study investigates whether the employment shift from the farm to the non-farm sector in Uttar Pradesh arises out of prosperity-induced or distress-induced factors. The examination of employment patterns at various levels leads to conclusive evidence that distress-induced push factors have been predominant in driving workers to non-farm employment. The …
Sustainable agriculture literacy can alleviate the problem of agriculture in India. We need to educate the farmers. Farmer schools can be a good measure of sustainable agriculture literacy - report of Amit Dwivedi Agriculture is facing several problems in India. On the one hand natural calamities adversely affect agriculture production, …
LUCKNOW: In 2006, when students of Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) were penalised for violating the institution's norms, they may have resented the move. But two years down the line, they feel proud of paying the fine as the little mistakes they made has "lit up" lives of 30-odd …
This paper examines the evolution of poverty in India through the prism of agricultural wages and employment. It links the movement in wages (and hence poverty) to the fundamental process of sectoral labour flow that underlies economic development. It finds that despite the rapid growth of the non-farm sector, its …
A reality check of the status of the government schemes as well as problems of the villagers by Indore collector and his administrative paraphernalia on Saturday and Sunday under the Gram Sampark Abhiayaan, has not only brought to the fore the pitiable condition of basic infrastructure - like road, electricity …
BALANGIR: Farmers in the district can now break free from the clutches of money-lenders (mahajans). After incidents of suicide by cotton farmers due to debt trap, the Utkal Gramya Bank (UGB) has launched a
It can't be termed development if the largest section of the society is bound to spend 55 to 70 percent of their gross income just to arrange their daily requirement of food. The farce of poverty identification is a big challenge before the goal of elimination of chronic hunger. Actually, …
The Government of Andhra Pradesh established the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), in the year 2000, to bring light into the lives of the rural poor. It implements two poverty reduction projects with an amount of Rs. 2000 crores. SERP's current programmes reach year by 80 lakh households …
