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Poverty

 Overcoming poverty

SOUTH-EAST Asian and Pacific countries could banish poverty "within a generation or so", suggests a forthcoming World Bank report. South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand are listed in the report as

Publication Date: 
14/03/1993
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Poverty, World Bank
Sanitation

 For a few dollars more...

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, still die every day all over the world, because of malnutrition.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
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Malnutrition, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Children, Poverty, Education, UNICEF, Developing Countries
Poverty

 Food benefits are not for the poor

IN A poverty-ridden country, particularly in the rural areas, it is legitimate to ask to what extent the public distribution system (PDS) of foodgrains acts as a security cover to the poor. The

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Ash Gulati
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Food Supply, Rural Habitat, Poverty, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Poverty

 The saga of the big brother in a little village

Anna in Marathi means brother and Kishan Baburao Hazare is lovingly known as Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi, the village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district that he helped transform from poverty to

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Gopal K Kadekodi
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Rural Habitat, Rural Development, Poverty, India
Poverty

 Alternative approaches to poverty alleviation

THIS BOOK focusses on poor women of the Third World and recommends a particular approach for poverty alleviation. After a brief, but commonplace critique of current strategies, including Arthur

Publication Date: 
30/10/1992
Deepti Priya
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Women, Aid Agencies, Poverty
India

 Past lessons, future strategies

Studying the history of human interaction with nature can be very useful in formulating resource management policies. It can also provide a clearer insight into the causes of poverty

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Anumita Roychowdhury
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Ecology, Economic Development, Poverty, History, India, Delhi
Poverty

 IMF package leads Pakistan to disaster

A short term economic policy has meant more unemployment and poverty as well as a slower growth rate and environmental degradation

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Robert Wilkinson
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Environment, Poverty, Sustainable Development
Poverty

 Driving home a point without any solutions

THE BRANDT Commission in 1980 had called for a world "based less on power and status, more on justice and contract; less discretionary, more governed by fair and open rules". Shridath

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
Amit Mitra
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Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Poverty, United States Of America (US), Global, Developing Countries, Rio Summit
Poverty

 Tears, no funds, for the poor

The chapter on poverty was adopted, but the US voiced its objections loud and clear

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
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Slums, Aid, Poverty, World Bank, NGO, Brazil, Sustainable Development
Poverty

 Children: victims of war and poverty

WAR HAS emerged as a major child-killer in the 1980s. Some 1.5 million children died in conflicts; Five million were turned into refugees and another 12 million were rendered homeless. War caused

Publication Date: 
Monday, June 29, 1992
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Tags:
Urban Sanitation, Rural Sanitation, Children, Poverty, War, Statistics

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