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Global warming may cause extreme droughts in India, World Bank warns

the next few decades, a new World Bank report warned today. The impact of a possible global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius in the next few decades threatens to trap millions of people in Poverty, according to the report. The soaring temperatures will also drive regular food shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa. Shifting rain patterns in South Asia due to warming could leave some parts under water and others without enough water for p

Bitter pill

f what they spend on their health, according to the National Sample Survey. A World Bank study on the subject found that just out-of-pocket medical costs push 2.2 per cent of the population below the Poverty line every year, a major countervailing force to economic growth and rising incomes. That, presumably, lies behind the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority's decision, reported by this newspaper on Monday, to notify the prices of 150 medicine

No Country For Countrymen -Arun Sinha

y of lamentation? And why it is still so? What revolutionary restructuring of administration have you brought about during your two terms to change that? The institutional failure in alleviating Poverty was not only obvious in the poor management of crop productivity- raising programmes, it was also evident in the non-implementation of land ceiling and redistribution policies. Only, in these policies, the political leaders consciously opted to be

Award Spotlights Indian Women Helping Women-Stella Paul

. Many of them have upgraded their skills and developed more business." According to Nanavaty, the award is a great motivation. "I dedicate this award to all the women who are fighting Poverty and finding food security and financial self-reliance collectively," she says. SEWA shares the award with the European Commission, which has also been working to reduce Poverty and ensure food

Ending Hunger Is Possible -Claudia Ciobanu

od security for all. In 2000, the U.N. adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals, meant to guide global efforts towards offering all people a decent life. MDG One, "eradicating extreme Poverty and hunger", is broken down into three targets: reducing by 50 percent the proportion of hungry people, achieving decent employment for all, and halving the number of people living on less than 1.25 dollars a day by 2015. Received with b

Social Protection Can Help Overcome Poverty and Hunger -Jomo Kwame Sundaram

the number of hungry people in the world in recent decades. After all, declining food prices in the second half of the 20th century, thanks to increasing production, were not enough to eliminate Poverty and hunger in the world. In the 1960s and 1970s, many governments invested a great deal to increase agricultural, especially food production. In the second half of the 20th century, agricultural productivity rose rapidly. But intense price co

Modi's tribal scheme shows he is pro-poor as well (Comment)-Vivian Fernandes

harge of the department, Anand Mohan Tiwari (now principal secretary, education) decided, after a series of debate and discussions, that low-yield, low income agriculture was the root cause of tribal Poverty. Gujarat's 7.5 million tribals, or 15 percent of the population, are better off than tribals elsewhere but they do not measure up to other Gujaratis on most counts, except land holding, albeit stamp-sized ones. A study by Amita Shah of the Gu

Chhattisgarh implements cheap food access-Sreelatha Menon

ulling hard on ways to enact its Food Security Bill, even as the Chhattisgarh government has completed six months of enacting a like law, one providing 35 kg of rice a month at Rs 2 a kg to all Below Poverty Line (BPL) households. What has changed in the state, governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, in these six months is the list of beneficiaries of the much-coveted cheap foodgrain. The law has relaxed the norms for inclusion in the BPL categor

Food security: How the states feed India

Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Punjab, intimated to district controllers/Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd (PUNSUP) to divert the wheat allocated by the Government of India for the Above Poverty Line families to atta-dal scheme." The department insists wheat is picked up during the procurement season, and pulses through tenders. Over & above PDS supplies, lower rates Madhya Pradesh this month launched a scheme, Muk

Why the Food Security Bill is neither populist nor unaffordable-Ashok Kotwal

ot; are only the bottom third or so, why offer food subsidy to the bottom two-thirds of India? We often talk about the poor as if it is a well-defined group, but that is hardly the case. The official Poverty threshold is low. Many people above the threshold are also poor and look just like the people below the threshold. As a result, there is no reliable way in which subsidies can be targeted only to the people below the official threshold. Final