Human development report 2023/2024
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state wide farmers suicide lies one decade of neglect. Of agriculture, which sustains 70 per cent of its people, actually rendered unproductive and life denying.
Poverty ratio in India has been on the decline. From 1977-78 to 1999-2000, both urban and rural poverty ratios declined by almost the same margin. However, absolute figures tell another story. It
Keep your fingers crossed and hope that the Supreme Court will intervene and snip Punjab's apparently adventurous politics when Haryana and Rajasthan approach it
The South-Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Council of Ministers meeting will be held in Islamabad on July 20 and 21. It will focus on economic issues, including poverty
The World Tourism Organisation, the apex world body on tourism with 144 member countries, is holding its 73rd session of the Executive Council in Hyderabad from Thursday. The two-day session, to be
Questioning the efficacy of various poverty alleviation programmes, the pre-Budget Economic Survey has suggested that the country should reformulate anti-poverty strategy, which is fiscally
The Economic Survey has called for reformulation of anti-poverty strategies that are fiscally sustainable and more finely targeted even as it pointed out that there has been a significant decline in
Terming the various evaluations of poverty alleviation programmes done by the government as erratic, the Economic Survey says growth in per capita income is a necessary condition for poverty
The State Government has formed ''Chennai Desal Company Limited'' to take up desalination projects. The company, registered on June 21 in the local office of Registrar of Companies, has as directors
A senior United Nations economic adviser suggested that impoverished African countries should refuse to pay foreign debt worth tens of billions of dollars. Jeffrey Sachs, a special adviser to Kofi