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PDS doesn't work against poverty, says World Bank
The public distribution system (PDS) , one of the India's oldest and most far-reaching public safety net schemes , has perhaps been the least efficient of the country's anti-poverty programmes. A
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World Bank launching new study on poverty in India
The World Bank is launching a new study on poverty in India even as basic health and education services remain distant for many of its poor with gaps galore in the coverage and effectiveness.
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Poverty diminishes between 1987-88 and 1993-94
Study :Poverty in both rural and urban India has come down significantly between 1987-88 and 1993-94, according to an official study. There has been a decline in the incidence of poverty in the
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Poverty level declined in 1988-94, says study
Incidence of poverty has come down significantly in both urban and rural areas of the country. This is the conclusion of a study organised by the department of statistics that used all methods of
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US poverty figures give cause for hope
Nearly a third of Americans experienced severe poverty at some time between 1993 and 1995, but for most people it was transitory, according to a study released by the census bureau. The report shows
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World Bank resumes lending to Indonesia with $225m loan
The World Bank on Tuesday resumed lending to Indonesia with a $225-million loan to reduce poverty, despite political and social uncertainties in Asia's hardest-hit crisis economy. The announcement
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India can halve poverty by 2015
World Bank report : The World Bank expects India to halve its poverty and achieve universal primary education by 2015, but gender equality will prove a tough challenge as will environmental
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- 40 pc of Assam's population still under poverty line
Despite repeated assurances by successive Governments to eradicate poverty, over 40 per cent of the total population of Assam are still living below the poverty line, that too according to an
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World Bank asks India to carve out new anti-poverty strategy
The World Bank claims that despite the largest "concentration" of the poor in the world,India has "wasted" considerable anti-poverty funds. The bank called upon India to urgently develop a new
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Technology and poverty
The United Nation's human development report is known for preaching sermons about the injustice of poverty and offering solutions that advocate moving forward rapidly into the past. But this year it
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The poverty summit
The Bush Administration declares that the theme of the G-8 summit is poverty allevation. This theme, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice explains, is "an extension in many ways of the