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Sharing profits for new gains by Sunita Narain
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n ore district of Karnataka, now also known for its illegal and unregulated mining and mineral barons — has the highest number of registered private aircrafts and is ranked at the bottom of the Human Development index of the state.
Clearly, therefore, much more will have to be done to correct this resource injustice. We will have to ensure that policies protect the rights of local communities. This will mean strict adherence to the provisio |
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Didi of Rural Bihar: Real Agent of Change? by Meera Tiwari
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he progress, in terms of enabling the rural women to harness the social, economic and political opportunities and reclaim self-respect and dignity, is highly noteworthy. These are critical drivers of Human Development within the discourse on the capability and the well-being approaches (Sen 1999; Alkire 2002; Gough and McGregor 2007).
The SHG endeavour in Andhra Pradesh was initiated in the 1990s within a relatively progressive development enviro |
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Anirudh Krishna, Economist interviewed by Archana Masih
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, such as PDS. Also, because they do not find mention in electoral rolls, political parties and leaders see little benefit in taking up these migrants' cause.
A recent study by Oxford Study and Human Development points out that the eight poorest states in India contain more poor people than 26 of the poorest African countries together. It also estimates India's poverty rate at about 55 percent, twice the official figure calculated by the Plannin |
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Govt, UNDP aim to make job scheme effective by Ruhi Tewari
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The government is collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to ensure that India’s flagship welfare programme leads to a tangible improvement in the Human Development index among the scheme’s beneficiaries.
UNDP and the Union government have launched a pilot project aimed at making the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) more efficient and effective by coordinating it wit |
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Overcoming the Malthusian scourge by Jeffrey Sachs
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ner to make sure that locally produced foods also meet vital nutrition needs.
•Hunger itself is complex, multi-faceted, and best approached through a “life-cycle” perspective of Human Development and human needs.
•Sanitation should be brought into the hunger-nutrition mix, given the heavy costs of unsafe drinking water and water-borne diseases as co-factors in undernutrition.
•Free trade in agriculture can inf |
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Half of India’s population lives below the poverty line by Arun Kumar
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Using a newly-developed index, the study found that about one-third of the world’s poor live in India.
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has been developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as a more precise and comprehensive means of estimating poverty levels. It will replace the Human Poverty Index that has been used in the UNDP’s annual
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Jharkhand, Bihar development like starving Congo, Kerala similar to Philippines by Rukmini Shrinivasan
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nd and Bihar are similar to 'least-developed countries' like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Earlier this month, the new MPI measure of poverty was released by the UK-based Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The new measure attempts to go beyond income poverty to give a broader understanding of the many types of deprivation the poor may face. It is composed of ten weighte |
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Revisiting Indian poverty by CP Chandrasekhar
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a symbol for the Indian rupee, a global assessment presents a depressing picture of India’s actual economic performance. In a study whose conclusions were to be expected, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHDI) has revealed that an appropriate index of poverty (and deprivation) finds its incidence in India and elsewhere to be much greater than estimated by the controversy-dogged measures of “income poverty” that a |
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Court's concern at development at the cost of livelihood of landowners by J Venkatesan
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or development. Why is the state's perception and vision of development at such great odds with the people it purports to develop? And why are their rights so dispensable? Why do India's GDP and HDI [Human Development Index, which is broadly used as measure of life expectancy, adult literacy and standard of living] present such vastly different pictures? With the GDP of $ 1.16 Trillion [for 2008] Indian economy is twelfth largest in U.S. Dollar terms |
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MPI, or Making Poverty Intricate by Bibek Debroy
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2010 will mark 20 years of UNDP’s Human Development Reports (HDRs). Consequently, UNDP wants to do something new. There cannot be any dispute that HDRs have been phenomenally successful in focusing attention on Human Development aspects, and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) may not have evolved without HDRs. There have been regional and sub-regional HDRs too, such as state-level ones in |
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