Medicinal plants can improve the fortunes of state's rural poor

Ending a six-month long suspension, the World Bank has agreed to continue financial assistance to Chad, after the country fell in with the bank's conditions on spending petrodollars. Under the

The idea seemed right for district Dungarpur. nfwp began with the preparation of a five-year district perspective plan (dpp) detailing work that could be taken up at every block level and gram panchayat.

Wasteland maps can help frame poverty alleviation programmes

Self-Help Group and linkage banking programme has come a long way from a small pilot project of NABARD to become a major poverty financing programme in India. Several organisations have participated in the country-wide programme with several models, but the essence remained the banking linkage through groups of poor women. DHAN Foundation's programme named as Kalanjiam Community Banking Programme is one such big programme in the country with projects being operated across several blocks in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.