What is poverty? The Planning Commission is set to undertake an exercise to find a quantifiable answer to the question. It has proposed to the Union government to set up an expert group to redefine poverty and, consequently, reassess the percentage of Ind

About 12 million American families last year couldn t afford to buy food. 32 per cent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one time or another. These are some of the findings of the Agriculture Department of the us. It was the third year i

Child Poverty Tens of millions of children in developing countries do not have access to food, water, education and sanitation, according to a report prepared by the Townsend Centre for

Over one billion children in the developing countries suffer from severe effects of poverty with more than 90 million children in South Asia alone going hungry everyday.
This was revealed in a

"A food secure and poverty free Jammu and Kashmir can be achieved by 2007 following a road map developed by us. The State is in an excellent position to ensure that no one is below the poverty line

A report on reducing business regulation published by the World Bank says poor countries could learn much from rich ones, and argues that a

With only 3.48 per cent of the population living below the poverty line (BPL) in Jammu and Kashmir, a major thrust is being laid on nutrition, as the state is deemed to become the first in the