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Poverty in India | DevActivism : "India Official poverty numbers are uncertain because India is currently engaged in a difficult debate about the income threshold that defines its national poverty line. For many years this threshold has been held down to the cost of a ...

Poverty in India has a female face : "If I were a painter I would have depicted the poverty of India with the face of a woman. The poverty in India has a female face. Be it hunger, education, child health, maternal health, diseases including HIV and AIDS and even environmental ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Chronic Poverty in India : "There is no uniform measure of poverty in India. Until recently, there was no official consensus on what percentage of the population lived below the poverty line. Nationally, there were different definitions of poverty . ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Vocational training lifts adolescents out of poverty in Uttar Pradesh, India : " This series of stories, essays and multimedia features seeks to accelerate and elevate adolescents' fight against poverty , inequality and gender discrimination. By Angela Walker MORADABAD, India, 10 March 2011 – There were times when Noorjahan Khan's ... UNICEF (press release) "

India's poverty in the virtual world : "It is the world's largest democracy and has the world's second largest population, but its Internet population is one of the lowest. It is a global leader in information technology , but has an extremely poor information and communication technology ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

WHO: leprosy spreading in poverty-stricken areas of India ... Nata Menabde, the World Health Organization's representative in India told AFP in an interview that nearly a third of India's districts needed urgent att.

Child Poverty | DevActivism : "Child Poverty . In some of the world's poorest regions millions of children live in desperate poverty and need for the most basic of everyday items. The social, mental and educational development of these children is severely stunted ...

Poverty News Blog: Brookings: number of people in poverty drops ... : "The rise of India and China's economies over the past decade has made a major impact of the number of people living in poverty . The huge populations within the two countries accounted for a huge drop in the number of poor people. ...

AP examines debate over India's poverty line : "The Associated Press examines the debate over the poverty line in India, noting that a commission that helps set the country's economic policy told the Supreme Court earlier this month that the poverty line in cities was 578 rupees ($12.75) per person ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Church in India struggling against child labour : The Catholic Church in India is drawing attention to the plight of millions of children forced to work on account of lack of education and poverty. India is the country with the highest level of child labour in the world. As many as 45 million children ...

One American City Rivals the Poor Youth of New Delhi, India for Some of the Worst-Off Teens in ...  - A recent “WAVE” study highlights the problem of child poverty in the United States and around the globe, with findings that are shocking.

Poverty, mother's health behind child malnutrition in India: Study  - Using data on nearly 29,000 children aged 6-59 months from the 3rd India National Family Health Survey, conducted in 2005-06, the researchers ...

India: Kerala: Church helping millions of women eradicate poverty It involves 80000 groups of women in rural and urban areas living below the poverty line, who become agents of change. “Poor women can play a pivotal role in this anti- poverty initiative,” Sr Mercy Varghese, who teaches at the St Xavier . ...

About 30% people were below poverty line in 2009-10: Government NEW DELHI: About 30 per cent of people in India were below the poverty line in 2009-10 that was based on the monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) of Rs 673 for rural areas and Rs 860 for urban areas, Parliament was informed today.

India's shopping spree & appalling poverty : "India's shopping spree & appalling poverty India is on a shopping spree with more than $100 billion in hand, and entering into defence deals left,

India's hidden climate change catastrophe : "Mr Sainath is an award-winning expert on rural poverty in India, a famous figure across India through his writing for The Hindu newspaper. ...

Is poverty the problem? We talk constantly of poverty in India as if it is our real problem. But I don't think it is. It is a consequence of deeper underlying issues. Global inequity among human beings has been framed and constructed in the context of money — the want of ...

Make growth more inclusive to banish poverty: SBI Chief ... : "Mumbai, December 04 (ANI): The chairman of the State Bank of India, Om Prakash Bhatt, said on Friday that the focus on inclusive growth in India could help eradicating the poverty and hunger in the country. Bhatt was speaking at the ... VideosFromIndia.SmasHits.com - http://videosfromindia.smashits.com/ "

Protests in India over poverty and corruption : " The Japanese whaling ship Nissin Maru approaches Sea Shepherd's high-speed trimaran Gojira while using water cannons. A reader supports the anti-whaling activists in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Simon Ager / AP Manmohan Singh, ... The National "

How much is Child Poverty Costing India? : "Is childhood spent in poverty and deprivation costing the country? The answer to this difficult question is, yes. A childhood minus basic rights - especially the right to food and the right to education, actually costs the country in terms of growth ...