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Agriculture

806 farmer suicides in State in 2008-11

As many as 806 farmers have committed suicide in the last two-and-a-half years in the State.

Among the districts, Hassan has reported the highest number of suicides at 101, according to a written reply by Agriculture Minister Umesh Katti to the Legislative Assembly on Monday.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Farmers, Debt
Economy

Microfinance: Lessons from a crisis

The rural distress in Andhra Pradesh has been more than evident in reported incidents of farmers’ suicides and hunger deaths. The incidence of indebtedness, particularly among small and marginal farming households in the state, is the highest in India.

Publication Date: 
05/02/2011
Tara S Nair
Economic and Political Weekly
46
6
23
Tags:
Finance, Andhra Pradesh, Debt, Poverty, Farmers, Economy
Agriculture

Impact of rehabilitation package in suicide-prone districts of Vidarbha

The farmers in the suicide-prone districts of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are aware of the union government

Publication Date: 
29/01/2011
Sangeeta Shroff, S S Kalamkar
Economic and Political Weekly
46
5
10
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, Maharashtra, Debt, Subsidies, Drought Management, Watershed Development, Irrigation, Seeds
Economy

Waking up from the nightmare

As a response to the criticisms of microfinance institutions

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
Prabhu Ghate
Economic and Political Weekly
46
1
79
Tags:
Finance, Poverty, Economy, Development, Legislation, India, Debt, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), NGO, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Rural Poverty
Economy

Tragedy in Andhra Pradesh

Microcredit schemes in India have recently caused scandal. The media blame them of causing over-indebted clients to commit suicide. Such reporting is overblown, but Indian microfinance certainly is in a mess.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
Oliver Schmidt
Development And Cooperation
38
1
30
Tags:
Finance, Andhra Pradesh, Economy, Debt, India, Rural Poverty
Economy

World economic situation and prospects 2011

The report highlights the continued challenge posed by high unemployment rates in many economies and outlines a number of risks and uncertainties for the economic outlook such as a premature withdrawal of policy stimulus, increased exchange rate volatility and a renewed widening of global imbalances.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
United Nations
Tags:
Economy, India, Developing Countries, Economic Development, Unemployment, Global, Sustainable Development, Trade, Finance, International Cooperation, Debt
Poverty

Migration, remote rural areas and chronic poverty in India

This paper explores the relationship between migration, remoteness and chronic poverty in India. It addresses one of the key challenges for India, where growing levels of inequality and uneven growth have resulted in large sections of the population being excluded or adversely incorporated. Many of these people belong to remote rural areas and are chronically poor.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2010
Priya Deshingkar
Overseas Development Institute
Tags:
Poverty, Rural Poverty, India, Migration, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Debt
Poverty

Profit and loss

This cover story in Down To Earth online charts the growth trajectory of India’s microfinance institutions and consists of a special report on the microfinance institutions in Andhra Pradesh who grew rich by lending insured loans to the rural poor.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2010
Arnab Pratim Dutta, Richard Mohapatra
Down to Earth
19
13
0
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Cooperatives, Debt, Poverty, Rural Poverty, Warangal (D), Women, Finance
Economy

Methodology: How the states were ranked

If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents' reply to specific questions. This route, however, presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Typically, that doesn't happen. Respondents know about states they operate in (or are located in). Second, you can use objective data.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2010
Bibek Debroy; Laveesh Bhandari
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Poverty, Population, Debt, Infant mortality, Education, Agriculture, Food Crops, Electricity, Roads
Fisheries

A fish moves west

The most delectable hilsa, swore connoisseurs, were to be found in the rivers of Bangladesh. But silting and have changed that. They are moving towards the Ganga now. Read this special report by Down To Earth on hilsa's shifting homebase.

Publication Date: 
31/10/2010
Kaushik Das Gupta
Down to Earth
19
11
0
Tags:
Bangladesh, Bay Of Bengal, Debt, Exports, Farakka Barrage, Fisherfolk, Fisheries, Ganga, Gujarat, Illegal Trade, India, Migratory Species, Narmada, Padma, Rivers, Tapti, West Bengal

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