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
India's new government has released its much-awaited
Increased trade has not led to reductions in poverty among the world's poorest countries and will not do so without an overhaul of development strategies, the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Bangladesh authorities have arrested the executive director of one of the country's largest nongovernmental oranization,s Proshika, on charges of corruption. The Bureau of Anti- Corruption has
The World Bank begins an international conference in China on reducing poverty that will, according to James Wolfensohn, its president, change the way the Bank does business. The Shanghai conference
Though Vadodara in Gujarat figures amongst the few cities in the country with the highest per capita water supply, the city's performs dismally when it comes to quenching the thirst of around 14lakh
Grinding poverty compound by severe drought has compelled a hapless woman to sell off her 15-day-old male child in Nalgonda
Poverty is falling in India. This is not a take from the
Despite all the talk about an eight-per cent growth rate and the "feel good" factor, the fact remains that there is still a great deal of grinding poverty in India. In fact, much of the
A two-day workshop on "The anomalies in the fixation of the poverty line', organised by the Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Action Network (UPVAN) at the Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra, concluded in Lucknow. The
With a substantially higher percentage of poor people than the all-India figure of 26.10 per cent, more than one third (36.09 per cent) of Assam's population is below the poverty line. The percentage