Poverty
Planning Commission
Development, Economy, Economic Development, Poverty, Delhi
Economy

Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2008

This report describes important methodological issues involved in generating internationally comparable estimates of poverty. The special chapter, titled Comparing Poverty Across Countries: The Role of Purchasing Power Parities, also provides comparable rates of poverty using price data specific to the Asia and Pacific region, and, critically, to the poor. A major contribution of the report is to examine the sensitivity of poverty estimates to different methods for evaluating purchasing power parities (PPP).

Publication Date: 
01/08/2008
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Environment, Infant mortality, Development, Economy, Women, Maternal Health, Energy, Finance, Poverty, Education, Governance, Asia, Diseases, Infrastructure Development, Malnutrition

38 uplift schemes approved

Jamshoro District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar has approved 38 schemes of village electrification, water supply, road and drainage for remote areas of the district, costing Rs62.5 million.

Publication Date: 
25/03/2008
Dawn
Tags:
Drainage, Development, Roads, Water Supply

National policy for women development

Publication Date: 
10/03/2008
Daily Star
Tags:
Development, Health, Women, Education, Bangladesh
Health

Diversity in calorie sources and undernourishment during rapid economic growth

This paper compares the experiences of India and Vietnam in dietary diversity and undernourishment from the early 1990s to the middle of the first decade of the new millennium. Feb 23-29, 2008

Publication Date: 
23/02/2008
Ranjan Ray
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Nutrition, Malnutrition, Development, Consumption Patterns, Economic Development, Poverty, Vietnam, India, Statistics

Forest Rights Act: Time-bound implementation underway

Bhopal, Feb 18: The time-bound implementation of Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition to Forest Rights) Act 2006 and Rule 2007 is underway with full intensity in Madhya Pradesh. The state government has sanctioned Rs eight crore 60 lakh so that the Act can be implemented within the deadline without any hindrance. Commissioner Tribal Development has been made the budget controller of this amount sanctioned from emergency fund.

Publication Date: 
19/02/2008
Central Chronicle
Tags:
Forests, Forest Act, Development, Tribals, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Madhya Pradesh
India

 Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies

Traditionally most urban areas in the country have grown out of rural settlements. Land use changes and population growth have precipitated urbanization in a lot of rural centres. Urbanization also

Publication Date: 
14/02/2008
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Development, Urban Habitat, Displacement, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Housing, Urban Environment, Finance, Poverty, India, Karnataka
Industry

 Goa CM against Centre's SEZ plans

On New Year's eve, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat declared that his government had decided "to do away with' the special economic zones (sezs) in their present form and had asked the centre to

Publication Date: 
30/01/2008
R Venugopalan Nair
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Resources, Development, Industry, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), India, Goa
Energy

 Emergency over oil in Ecuador

Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency in an Amazonian province on November 30 to quell protests that have slashed the nation's oil output by 20 per cent. Demanding

Publication Date: 
30/12/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Development, Conflicts, Energy, South America, Ecuador, Infrastructure Development
Economy

 Subcontinental drift

our worst suspicions have been confirmed. Recent research shows that since its separation from Gondwanaland, the Indian subcontinent has been moving at a more rapid pace than its siblings

Publication Date: 
29/11/2007
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Development, Economy, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Globalisation

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