Nobel Economist Amartya Sen has for decades passionately advocated the unfashionable theory that without political freedom and human rights the poor cannot get out of the poverty trap, that in fact

The Sikkim State Government has decided to creat a model village in each of the 30 constituencies in the State with a view to improve the living conditions of the rural

On Thursday, the UNDP will come up with its annual Human Development Report on India. But India, still awaits its own. After being hauled up by the Lok Sabha's standing committee on finance for its

Some 30 industrial countries reached agreement on new international guidelines for multinational business covering areas from human rights to the environment, according to sources close to the talks.

UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, in a joint publication with the heads of OECD, IMF and the World Bank, has called on nations to combat global poverty. The report states 1.2 billion people are living

The World Bank abruptly cancelled plans to make public a highly critical review of $40 million loan to China for relocating 58,000 poor rural families in areas in a western province populated mostly

There would be 1.7m fewer child deaths this year had the world's governments met pledges made at the 1995 social development summit on Copenhagen, says an Oxfam report. None of the anti-poverty

Pay schemes designed to improve job opportunities for low productivity workers will not improve their position unless coupled with measures to improve skills and competence, the OECD says in a

Child poverty has risen sharply in the world since the mid-1960s because of a breakdown in conventional families, unemployment and widening income inequality, according to this year's world labour

New World Bank research suggests that civil wars are more often fueled by rebel groups competing with national governments for control of diamonds, coffee or other valuable primary commodities,