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Eliminating, or even alleviating, global poverty is an enormous task. Poverty can only be truly addressed if certain conditions are met. For a long time there has been an attempt to develop rural poultry. The developmental agencies tried hard to teach the rural farmers how to take care of birds that had been brought in from other places. However, what the farmers needed was a bird suited to the local economic position and environment. There were numerous hurdles that had to be overcome before any agency could become the pioneer of a social and profit-entrepreneurship model.

This paper by Ministry of rural development highlights the strategic framework to eradicate rural poverty by 2015. Proposes an integrated approach focusing on improved access to natural resources, physical, social and financial infrastructure.

This article examines the government of India

The amalgamation of regional rural banks has been completed. This paper builds up a case against it. Amalgamation would be a death blow to the credit starved rural poor, most of whom are small and marginal farmers, agricultural and landless labourers, and artisans. The paper calls for an immediate de-amalgamation of RRBS in the interest of the vast majority of the rural poor.

bangladesh will introduce a 100 days employment generation programme for the rural poor next year. This is part of the country

Acknowledging that there are

It was unique event. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has always been in focus since the Act was adopted in 2006.

The widely accepted view that emphasises the negative impact of the decline in common property resources on the village poor generally presumes that village common lands would have been used by all villagers inclusive of the poor without serious differences in the right to access them. Mainly based on

In a developing country like India, the development of rural economy through effective and proper management of common property resources (CPRs) such as forests has increasingly become an integral part of sustainable development policy in the past couple of decades.

Neeta Kolhatkar If the SEZ comes up I Raigadh, then the Pedder Road flyover must be built tooLast week was one of the biggest tests of democracy for our state. The Government of Maharashtra woke up a tad late to conduct a referendum on the development of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ).

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