The World Trade Organisation (WTO), under fire from development groups which say it works against the poor, issued a study arguing that trade liberalisation can help reduce poverty. The study,

Britain has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world, with nearly one in five living in families below the poverty line, a survey by UNICEF, the U.N. children's fund, has

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister M Chandrababu Naidu launched the country's first innovative Poverty Eradication Mission in Utnoor in which the beneficiaries will also double as the

After 40 years of agreeing that it should be done, will the rich countries finally untie their aid? On June 20th the rich-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will meet for

One of the Blair government's bolder aims is to eradicate child poverty in Britain within 20 years. A study released by the United Nations Children's Fund suggests that Britain has quite a problem.

survey : The number of Pakistanis living below the poverty line has increased phenomenally 43.9 million in 1998-99, the Economic Survey 1999-2000 has

survey: Pakistan's fiscal deficint will be "close to six per cent" of the Gross Domestic product(GDP) in 1999-200 as contrasted with 6.1 per cent in 1998-99 and 7.7 per cent in 1997-98, the Finance

In one of the biggest initiatives for eradication poverty in both the rural and urban areas, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will launch "Velugu" programme in the tribal heartland

The author of the World Bank's annual World Development Report has resigned following a fierce internal row over the report's content. Ravi Kanbur, a former academic at Cornell University in the US,

The number of families living below the poverty line in Madhya Pradesh during the Ninth Five Year Plan was 4.54 lakhs less than what it was in the eight Five Year