The State Government has launched a three-pronged strategy to eradicate poverty through the Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM).

Government departments now use different standards to measure poverty

Government departments differ with regard to standards for determining poverty-level, Mythili K. Rajendran, Managing Director and Principal Secretary, Tamil Nadu Rural Livelihood Mission, said here on Tuesday.

The World Bank on Wednesday approved a US$500 million concessional credit to Bangladesh to improve the equity, efficiency and transparency of Bangladesh’s major social safety net programs, reports

The World Bank has approved a US$500 million concessional credit to Bangladesh to improve the equity, efficiency and transparency of Bangladesh’s major social safety net programs.

The draft of the upcoming 13th three-year plan prepared by the National Planning Commission (NPC) has targeted to reduce the poverty to 18 per cent from existing 23.8 per cent.

Thirty thousand ultra poor women, supported by a four-year cash-transfer project, have moved out of extreme poverty in the disaster prone areas of three northern districts of Bangladesh, a report r

The World Bank has come out with a multi-billion ($12-20 billion) four-year plan aimed at bringing down poverty levels in seven low-income Indian States, where a majority of India’s poor live, to j

The Finance Ministry said Friday that its spending on poverty relief in rural areas for 2012 surged 31.9 percent from a year earlier to 299.6 billion yuan ($47.79 billion).