Poverty

Old definition

The idea of defining poverty in terms of a poverty line was first introduced during the India Labour Conference in 1957. A working group under the Planning Commission then stipulated a poverty line

Publication Date:

29/04/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Poverty, India, Rural Poverty, Planning Commission

Industry

The price-nutrition dynamic plays out differentially in the developed and developing worlds. In the former, as a number of studies have noted, fast food constitutes a much greater proportion of the diet of the poor.

Publication Date:

30/03/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070331

pp:

0

Tags:

Nutrition, Processed Foods, Fast Foods, Food Process Industry, Health Effects, Consumption Patterns, Child Health, Poverty, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries

Poverty

A look at world urban population

Homo sapien as an urban, undeveloped species >> From 1950 to 2000, the urban population of the world quadrupled

Publication Date:

14/03/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070315

pp:

0

Tags:

Urban Water Supply, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Urban Habitat, Migration, Urbanisation, Urban Sprawl, Urban Housing, Slums, Urban Sanitation, Population, Population Trends, Poverty, Developing Countries, Statistics, Rural Poverty

Poverty

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

The Union budget 2007-08 will very likely slash development funds for the most backward regions of India by more than 48 per cent, say sources at the Union ministry of Panchayati Raj. Government is

Publication Date:

27/02/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Rural Development, Finance, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Panchayats, India, Rural Poverty

India

India Poised A Times of India celebration

Till some time back, India was the poster child of globalisation. A country which opened out to the world in the early 1990s and the world responded enthusiastically. The Indian economy grew. A

Publication Date:

14/02/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Development, Poverty, Media, Press, India, Globalisation

Poverty

Gram sabhas to oversee NREGP schemes

Publication Date:

03/02/2007

Tags:

Poverty

Economy

Cost of special papers stops priniting of passports in Zimbabwe

Economic Crisis

Publication Date:

14/01/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Economy, Poverty, Media, Zimbabwe

Industry

2006: The waterloo year

THE year 2006 will go down as environment's watershed year. This is not because this year we have had extraordinary success in environmental management; there was also no environmental disaster per se. This year must be remembered because the task of environmental management has come to be even more contested and even more challenged. Protests against environmental degradation have grown. But so have efforts to deny environmental concerns or to dilute regulations.