Tag Poverty
July 30, 2013 Utsa Patnaik, The Hindu The Planning Commission’s spurious method shows a decline in poverty because it has continuously lowered the measuring standard The Planning Commission has once again embarrassed us with its claims of decline in… Continue Reading →
Gethin Chamberlain in Assam The Observer, Millions of Brits drink a cup of Assam tea each day, but it comes at a terrible price. Plantation workers on 12p an hour are easy prey for traffickers who lure away their daughters to… Continue Reading →
Mihir S Sharma | New Delhi July 23, 2013 , BS Q&A with Nobel prize-winning economist Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, who has just written An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions with Jean Dreze, tellsMihir S Sharma that he… Continue Reading →
By Countercurrents.org 16 May, 2013 Countercurrents.org The gap between rich and poor widened more in the three years to 2010 than in the previous 12 years, said OECD, the group of industrialized nations. According… Continue Reading →
UK-based charity says the world’s 100 richest people earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty four times over. The world’s richest one percent have seen their income increase by 60 percent in the last 20 years [EPA]… Continue Reading →
By Mahendra Kumar Singh, TNN | Jan 14, 2013, 04.36 AM IST NEW DELHI: The urban poor will now be identified on the basis of social, economic and occupational vulnerabilities as the housing and poverty alleviation ministry has decided to junk the Planning Commission‘s income… Continue Reading →
Cash transfer would be a test for Aadhaar but the poor would pay the price Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi Dec 16, 2012,, business standdar Technology can be good. But should it be first tested on the poor, who… Continue Reading →
NOVEMBER 30, 2012, http://www.taxindiaonline.com/ By TIOL Edit Team THE Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has put the Government in fast gear on the grandiose project for direct cash transfers (DCT) to beneficiaries of various subsidy-centric and other welfare schemes. He… Continue Reading →
Bibek Debroy , ET Thursday October 25, 2012, 03:46 PM We just went and got our biometry done for NPR (National Population Register). Census enumerators had visited us earlier and before the appointed NPR dates, we got an enrolment form… Continue Reading →
This book turns the usual approach to health analysis on its head. It begins by looking at continuing ill-health in India through the life of a labouring village woman, exploring the forces which keep her from adequately feeding and caring… Continue Reading →