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POVERTY ALLEVIATION MEASURES
UNDP's latest report on poverty highlights India's great leap upwardFrom the turn of the millennium, India has been targeting various deprivations. Eight years ago, public policy was tweaked to prioritise an...- Poverty in numbers: What does the data tell us?As per the World Inequality Report, the top 10% and the top 1% in India still control 57% and 22% of the national wealth, while the bottom ...
- Nepal, China to jointly announce revised height of Mt Everest on TuesdayThe Nepal government decided to measure the exact height of the mountain amid debates that there might have been a change in its height due...
- Living standard, not income, key to fixing poverty line: Govt paperThe future definition of poverty line cannot be the subsistence level income required by an individual but will have to factor in living st...
- India brings its experience of success in poverty alleviation to new global alliance: UNGA prezSuccess in India relating to poverty eradication is success for the world because it addresses a huge population and India can bring to the...
- Children should not fall into the trap of child labour post covid-19 outbreak: ILOLaying out a six-point roadmap for India to address the problem, Dagmar Walter, director, ILO said India needs to target poverty alleviatio...
- Minimum Government: Centre moots step to merge ministriesThe new entities could come into being this financial year. According to a government representative, a concept note is being prepared.
- Niti Aayog set to redraw the poverty line“We will soon set up an expert committee to narrowly look at the poverty line issue only, as most states are politically not in sync with e...
- Southern states agree to NITI Aayog's poverty line end-useThe participating states expressed concern about availability of drinking water in their respective areas and wanted the NITI Aayog to take...
- China to spend $93 billion to relocate 10 million poor peopleChina will spend $93 billion in the next five years to relocate about 10 million impoverished people as part of its efforts to eradicate po...
- China vows to lift remaining 70 million above poverty line by 2020China's top leadership has pledged resolute measures to lift the remaining 70 million poor people above poverty line by 2020 which amounted...
- India pledges support to overcome poverty in SAARC regionIndia today pledged to continue its unwavering support to combat challenge of endemic poverty in the SAARC region.
- China has 36 million people living under extreme poverty: SurveyAmong the 36 million people in China who live in 'extreme' poverty, 3.3 to 4 million are children aged 0 to 6 years, the report said.
- Bio-metric attendance system at Nirman BhawanEight systems known as 'Aadhar Based Bio-Metric Attendance Systems(AEBAS)' have been installed at six gates of Nirman Bhawan.
- SAARC comes out with poverty profileA poverty profile for eight South Asian nations was released today to share of the best practices and experiences towards poverty alleviati...
- Declining poverty: No reason to be coy about good economic newsThe proportion of the poor to the total population has fallen from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 21.9% in 2011-12.
- Giving in the best wayResearch uncovered reports showing the effectiveness of cash transfers as a model to alleviate poverty.
- Poverty numbers: World Bank says no plan to trim lending to IndiaThe multilateral lender envisages lending $ 14 billion for projects in the country between 2009 and 2012, according to its country website.
- New reforms likely in 11th PlanIndia's 11th Five-Year Plan, is set to unleash new reform measures, particularly in the farm sector.
- CII finds ways to tackle povertyThe Confederation of Indian Industry has advocated a "holistic approach" to tackling the problem of urban poverty.
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