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At current pace, Bangladesh to end extreme poverty by 2021According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bangladesh’s economy was the second fastest growing economy in 2016 with a 7.1% growth ...
Bangladesh PM pushes development agenda; eyes to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021Poverty alleviation has been high on the Hasina government's development agenda as is evident in all plan documents.
'India unlikely to meet all Millennium Development Goals'While the country has met targets in areas like poverty reduction, and is close to meeting those for literacy rate, it is unlikely to do so...
Post-2015 development agenda must create inclusive growth: Asoke Mukherji"India attaches a high degree of importance to the post-2015 development agenda with poverty eradication as its overarching objective," Aso...
Food Security Bill: Congress gets DMK on boardCongress and government leadership have succeeded in persuading DMK to support the food security bill.
India accounts for one third of the world poor: World BankIndia accounts for one-third of the world poor, people living on less than $1.25 (about Rs 65) per day, a World Bank report on poverty has ...
Union Budget 2012: Congress leaders want "please all" BudgetCongress asked Mukherjee to raise income tax slabs, reduce interest rates in Union Budget 2012.
- 49.1 million Americans poor under new census method
The number of Americans living in poverty has jumped by nearly three million to 49.1 million, or 16 per cent of the total population, accor...
- Number of US poor hit record 46 million in 2010
US poverty rate rose to the highest level in almost two decades and household income fell in 2010, underscoring the lingering impact of the...
- Targeted PDS is a failure: Plan Panel member
A day after the Work Bank marked out deficiencies in the country's public distribution system (PDS) for foodgrain, a senior government offi...
- Job, poverty numbers in April, but government calls for fresh survey
The government has ordered a new survey with a view that results from a bad year for the economy are not comparable with past data.
- NSSO to conduct fresh survey in 2011-12
The socio-economic status of the nation’s 1.2 billion citizens is gauged by national sample surveys on consumer expenditure and employment.
- Govt widens ambit of rural health cover
The government has extended a health insurance scheme earlier restricted to people living below the poverty line to a wider range of groups...
- Large gaps in Asia-Pacific development goals: UN
South Asia is lagging behind the Asia-Pacific region in poverty and hunger reduction, and is in danger of missing these key targets in the ...
- Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty
Revised formula reveals even worse levels of poverty in America.
- US economy bad all over even before current crisis
Things really are bad all over America and they had gone bad even before the housing and finance industries crashed and sent the economy in...
- 15% GDP growth rate will eradicate poverty: Experts
The solution for eradicating poverty in the country lies in scaling up the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate to upto 15 per cent, ac...