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Pakistan government has constituted a committee, comprising irrigation secretaries and technical experts of Sindh and Punjab to resolve the thorny issue of remodelling of Thal canal project, it has

Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf said that a series of government initiatives are having far-reaching effects on poverty reduction, but asked the private sector to join hands in expanding

Faced with the imminent arrival of more than 170 Presidents and Prime Ministers, Negotiators agreed to resolve differences blocking acceptance of the centerpiece document for this week's

Employment in the Asia Pacific region, between 2003 and 2004, increased by only 1.6%, compared to the strong economic growth rate of over 7%. What's more, during this period, the number of total

South Asia will need to maintain the average economic growth rate of 5.8% it achieved in 1995-2005 to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) of reducing extreme poverty by mid-2015. According

The Cabinet has decided to increase the number of districts to be covered under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from 150 to 200, besides extending it to all rural households, instead

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