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Tariffs on cocoa growers give edge to Europe’s chocolatiersThis could lead to increased prices for consumers, reduced demand, and decreased competitiveness for US chocolate exports, potentially harm...- Narendra Modi's counter to Congress: Not equally rich but equally poorPrime Minister Narendra Modi strongly criticised the Congress party's proposal for wealth redistribution, calling it a dangerous idea. The ...
- Kalahandi no longer land of hunger, now Odisha's rice bowl: Naveen PatnaikAddressing a public meeting attended by people who have tested negative for COVID-19, Patnaik recalled his father and former chief minister...
- Congress MP from Kerala moves Supreme Court against farm billsThe Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, was signed by the President and became...
- View: Revival package doesn’t help the poor or middle class, backbone of India’s broken economyThese packages offer nothing for the migrant, the informal sector, the poor or even the middle class – the backbone of the Indian economy. ...
- What Indian farmers really need: A total overhaul of fundamental economics of agricultureMore than subsidies, loan waivers and minimum support prices, Indian farmers actually need the fundamental economics of agriculture to be f...
- Supreme Court slams Tamil Nadu government for indifference to farmers hit by droughtTN was under an obligation not to allow "impecunious and poverty-stricken farmers to resign to their fate or leave the downtrodden and the ...
- Karnataka model that may be a step forward in tackling the epidemic of crop insurance scamsInsurance companies, faced with huge claims, discounted the payout all across and genuine farmers got much less than their due; while the p...
- Activist questions the allotment of Oshiwara plot to Hema Malini at a nominal plotDebt-laden Maharashtra, which is facing fund shortage to complete infrastructure projects, has given a Rs 40-crore land parcel to the MP fo...
- 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...
- Home and the world: Why do farmers commit suicide? It's a man thing and moreIn contrast, wives of farmers rarely commit suicide. Sure, she does not negotiate with bank officials or the money lender.
- XLRI Jamshedpur to create a common research & action network for micro finance practitionersThe efforst will help in supporting India's financial inclusion agenda. It was the outcome of a three-day seminar on financial inclusion or...
- Looking into the cracked mirrorKatherine Boo's excellent book about the squalor and wretchedness in Bombay has got glowing reviews from one and all.
- China's poverty line reaches medium rank with new standardThe nearly doubling of the rural poverty threshold will make almost 130 million people eligible for various social support schemes funded b...
- Will netas understand hunger by experimenting with fast?Hazare's success reminded the political class about the magnetic effect a fast has on the common man, who suffers hunger on a daily basis.
- Poverty haunts India's economic miracleIndia's number of millionaires grew by 51 percent to 126,700 in 2009, according to US investment bank Merrill Lynch and consultants Capgemi...
- Microfinance- A magical economic panacea?Microfinance to me is simply a tool for empowering the 'bottom billion' of the world with unprecedented financial independence, if employed...
- Agri ministry faces a drought of policy optionsUPA mandarins face two mega-challenges in the coming days — check rising food prices and give relief to drought-stricken farmers.
- Empowering India’s dairy sectorAs a child, RG Chandramogan witnessed the remarkable transformation of his poverty-stricken agricultural village into a busy industrial tow...
- Andhra Pradesh accounts for 13% of country’s outstanding farm loansThere may be disparate opinions as to how the waiving of agricultural loans will affect the finances of the country’s commercial banks.
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