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Ethiopia is to issue its first-ever private radio broadcasting licences by August 2004. The licences would be issued ahead of the 2005 elections that, analysts say, will test the government's

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

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Ethiopia

Agriculture

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

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13

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20040715

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Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

Village Punukula s different

Managing yields without pesticides

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

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0

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Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

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0

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Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

A debt ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

"The strategy for agriculture will certainly create new jobs, especially in the allied sector. However, agriculture's share of employment will actually reduce, from the current 70 per cent to 40-45

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state wide farmers suicide lies one decade of neglect. Of agriculture, which sustains 70 per cent of its people, actually rendered unproductive and life denying.

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Poverty

Poverty rising faster in cities

Poverty ratio in India has been on the decline. From 1977-78 to 1999-2000, both urban and rural poverty ratios declined by almost the same margin. However, absolute figures tell another story. It

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Economic Times (New Delhi)

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Poverty

Haryana, Rajasthan to appeal SYL move

Keep your fingers crossed and hope that the Supreme Court will intervene and snip Punjab's apparently adventurous politics when Haryana and Rajasthan approach it

Publication Date:

13/07/2004

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Dams, Irrigation

Poverty

SAARC meeting to focus on poverty

The South-Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Council of Ministers meeting will be held in Islamabad on July 20 and 21. It will focus on economic issues, including poverty

Publication Date:

11/07/2004

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

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Poverty

Tourism to be mooted as tool to help the poor

The World Tourism Organisation, the apex world body on tourism with 144 member countries, is holding its 73rd session of the Executive Council in Hyderabad from Thursday. The two-day session, to be

Publication Date:

09/07/2004

Source: Pioneer (New Delhi)

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Poverty