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Despite encouraging progress in reducing poverty and improving the working lives of people in Asia under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), unemployment reached a record high while job growth

The successive drought and shortage of food grains does not seem to be an issue on the agenda of the both, the Union Government and Jharkhand State Government. It is evident from the fact that more

Poverty forces 48 per cent of the people in villages in 13 states to skip meals. Eighty-eight per cent do not have work all year round and in nearly 45 per cent of the villages, agricultural and wage

The Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, will seek Central help to complete the irrigation projects taken up on the Godavari and the Krishna and thus avoid huge quantities of water going waste.

Kerala will not yield to any pressure from the Tamil Nadu Government on the issue of raising the storage capacity of the Mullaperiyar reservoir. On no account will the State agree to raise the water

China and India have seen trend reductions in the incidence of absolute poverty since the early 1980s, although progress has not been even over time. Table 1 gives the percentages of each country's

For a few students from four prominent Delhi schools, it was an up-close and personal look at poverty. Involved in a reality-check exercise to answer the key question, they were on a mission to see

For villagers in drought-stricken southern Mozambique, this year's food shortages are the worst many can remember, but aid workers fear the world may not respond until it is too late. Across southern

The district administration has launched a survey to identify the families living below the poverty line (BPL) in the urban areas of the district and it will be completed within 10 days. The last

The World Bank has said it is assisting the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in its development of a reliable, sustainable and affordable water supply system in Delhi and denied any move to privatise any part

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