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China to give cash handouts to the poorChina will provide one-off cash handouts to people in extreme poverty before National Day. The aid, announced just after a new economic sti...- China celebrates official end of extreme poverty, lauds President XiThe propaganda apparatus has been linking national successes to Xi, including fighting the coronavirus, China's rise as a technology creato...
- View: Development economists who go small have a pointPritchett reasons that the only thing that really alleviates a nation’s poverty on a significant scale is economic growth.
- China provides $58 bn aid to 166 countriesThe white paper noted that China had absorbed about 23 per cent of exports from the world's least developing countries since 2008.
- UK still giving India millions in aid: ReportThe Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), which audits tax-payer funded spending by the British government, said the UK continued t...
- A silver jubilee to remember: How India has gone from super-beggar to potential superpower in 25 years since reformsThe economic reforms launched by PV Narasimha Rao in July 1991 have transformed India so much that it’s difficult to recall how bad things ...
- China plans to cut GDP target to 6.5% in next five-year planRecent IMF forecast said China's growth is expected to slow from 7.3 per cent in 2014 to 6.8 per cent this year and 6.3 per cent in 2016.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping announces $2 billion fund for South-South cooperationXi Jinping has announced a $2 billion fund to support South-South cooperation in addition to launching the "Six 100s" initiative.
- China, India played central role in global poverty reduction: UN reportThe latest estimates show that the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day globally fell from 36 per cent in 1990 to 15 per ce...
- India, China have resources to tackle poverty, says David CameronCameron today said financial aid should be extended to "broken states" that are facing famine and conflicts.
- Beyond the Rs 32 debate: Sustained fast growth seems to work to make a serious dent on povertyThe poverty trend in India mirrors the trend in South Asia: a rather slow, but steady, decline. This is true no matter what poverty thresho...
- UK, India need to strengthen partnership on development issues: Andrew Mitchell"We have had a long and successful partnership with India but that needs updating in the light of India’s growth over the last decade."
- India contributes to large drop in global poverty: UN reportIndia has contributed to a large reduction in global poverty, according to the UN annual report on the Millennium Development Goals.
- UK confirms 280 million pounds annual aid to IndiaThe David Cameron government has resisted pressure from various quarters at home to continue aid to India at the rate of 280 million pounds...
- World's poor move with India into mid-income bracketGlobal poverty is no longer a poor-country phenomenon. A new study shows that while 93% of the world's poor lived in low-income countries i...
- China rises and rises, yet still gets foreign aidChina gets more than $2.5 billion a year in foreign government aid - and taxpayers and lawmakers in donor countries are increasingly asking...
- G8 nations, emerging donors start development talksThe G8 Development Ministers' Meeting 2008 comes amid growing concern about rising food prices that are adding to the burden of some of the...
- US must junk military lensThe US needs to stop looking at development through the military lens, said Jeffery D Sachs on Monday.
- Simple solutions for social goals: SachsIndia does not require miracle solutions for meeting its millennium development goals (MDG) of water, sanitation, education and health, Dr ...
- China world's third largest food donorChina emerged as the world's third largest food aid donor after the United States and the European Union in 2005, according to a United Nat...
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