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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) "

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. ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

Poverty rate declines to 32 per cent: Plan panel : " AP The Tendulkar Committee had suggested that poverty should be estimated on the basis on consumption based on cost of living index instead of caloric intake. File photo The latest data of the Planning Commission indicates that poverty in India has ... The Hindu "

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 ...

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 ...

May 19: Universal anti-poverty schemes best for poverty ... : "NEW DELHI: The first-ever comprehensive review of India's anti- poverty schemes has found that schemes like the MGNREGS that do not specifically seek to identify the poor are most successful in actually covering them. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Poverty: a human-rights violation : " The poverty seen in Frazer's Content, St Catherine, where they live, is not unfamiliar in Jamaica. - File Ananada (right) feeds milk through a food pipe to his cancer-patient wife Mangalabai outside a cancer-speciality hospital in Mumbai, India, ... Jamaica Gleaner "

A new breed: Highly productive chickens help raise Ugandans from poverty : " As Sharma notes, it has already shown enormous promise in lifting villagers out of the cycle of economic poverty and nutritional stress in some of the poorest regions: "The success of the Kuroiler chicken in India, where it was first introduced, ... Eureka! Science News "