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Economy

 Furore over Zimbabwe's selection as head of UN body

Zimbabwe's election as the head of an important un environment body has generated much controversy. Francis Nhema, the country's minister of environment and tourism was nominated by Africa to head

Publication Date: 
14/06/2007
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Environment, Economy, Poverty, UN, Zimbabwe, European Union (EU), UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)
Poverty

 Gujarat announces Rs 13 crore scheme for state's poor

gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on March 29, 2007, announced a Rs 13-crore scheme for the state's urban poor. The programme, called Garib Samriddhi Scheme, envisages, among other things,

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
Minti Jain
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Urban Planning, Nagarpalikas, Urban Housing, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, NGO, Awards, India, Gujarat
India

 'Maps of resource rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'

Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent academics who have looked at the problem. Ram Dayal Munda,

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
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Land Ownership, North East, Koel Karo, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Poverty, NGO, India, Jharkhand, Naxalites, Rural Poverty
India

 'Privatisation has increased rural neglect'

The northeast has been badly affected by ethnic strife. DILIP GOGOI of Cotton College, Guwahati, on its vulnerability Are ethnic conflicts more frequent in the northeast compared to other parts

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30/05/2007
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North East, Development, Tribals, Conflicts, Rural Development, Economic Development, Poverty, India, Rural Poverty
Poverty

 Grim reality of India's poverty dip

parshit Kurmi, a daily-wage labourer in Delhi since 1991, was puzzled when he was told that the government's latest estimate had found poverty levels were coming down. For the past 16 years, Kurmi's

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Richard Mahapatra, Sandip Das
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Food Prices, Consumption Patterns, Planning, Poverty, India, Statistics, Rural Poverty
Economy

 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
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Poverty, India, Rural Poverty, Planning Commission
Industry

 Marketing bad health

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
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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
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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
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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
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Development, Poverty, Media, Press, India, Globalisation

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