An international team of experts sponsored by the United Nations proposed a detailed, ambitious plan it says could halve extreme poverty and save the lives of millions of children and hundreds of

The one-year action plan of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, an extension of the just-concluded 100-day programme, will focus on rehabilitation of tsunami victims and generation of jobs under

British fuel cell company Voller Energy will float its shares in London next month to finance further production of its portable generators that are wanted by Britain's largest tool hire provider,

More than 500 million people can escape abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich countries double development aid over the next

Following are the main proposals issued from an advisory body the United Nations set up to help achieve its Millennium development goals. Those goals, agreed in 2000, are to cut in half extreme

Next item on the agenda : halve world poverty, bring hope to millions. Price: $50bn or so in extra aid per year. Alternative : continued preventable suffering and deprivation, above all in

It is absolutely true that poverty has not gone down as much as was targeted. But this point should be read along with the knowledge that growth has not been what it was meant to be in the target.

Implementation of the Rural Employment Guarantee Act can cost as much as Rs 20,210 crore per annum, as per an analysis by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). The bill, as has

Leading environmental campaigners and activists are expected to assemble by January 15, when the struggle against the Coca-Cola plant at Plachimada in the district completes 1000

Nearly two million people could fall into poverty as a result of the tsunami that killed more than 150,000 people around the Indian Ocean, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. While the overall