The study is based on the Census 2001 dataset on Religion and Census 2011 dataset. The data set for poverty are based upon Tendulakar methodology(TM). As such, literacy rate itself is a good indicator of the socio-economic progress of a country as also of a religious group. From a ...
In recent years, India emerged as the country with the highest rate of poverty reduction. In 2019, the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index reported that India lifted 271 million citizens out of poverty between 2006 and 2016. India has not counted its poor since 2011. But the United Nations ...
Current WHO targets focus on decreasing the rate of new diagnoses with Grade 2 disability, and the reversal of legislation enabling leprosy discrimination [7]. In recent years, the majority of new leprosy cases have been reported from just three countries—India, Brazil, and Indonesia. Both ...
infrastructure was also misplaced, as around 36 million assets had been created under the scheme by 2019.Footnote20Although we would not assert that MGNREGS is the best answer to India’s poverty problem, surely the program is among the most important components of social protection in India and...
The reverse is true for areas shaded blue where the extreme poverty rate has fallen: many of the people living in those areas have moved out of the most extreme category and presumably have seen their fortunes and opportunities improve, even if, in most cases, not sufficiently to have escaped...
In high-income countries, low income was associated with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii resistance and a seven-fold higher infection rate. In low-income countries the findings on this relation were contradictory. Lack of education was linked to resistant S. pneumoniae and ...
Post-integration: In 2005, India achieved a leprosy prevalence rate <1/10000, and hence eliminated leprosy as a public health problem at the national level. With this achievement, the need for a separate vertical leprosy programme was diminished, and the Government of India initiated the second ...
Original title: Armoedesignalement 2011 In this joint publication, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP present the most up-to-date figures on poverty in the Netherlands. The trend in the poverty rate is described for the population as a whole and fo...
Post-integration: In 2005, India achieved a leprosy prevalence rate <1/10000, and hence eliminated leprosy as a public health problem at the national level. With this achievement, the need for a separate vertical leprosy programme was diminished, and the Government of India initiated the second ...
Kerala traditionally has the lowest annual population growth rate in the country. The overall decline in the annual population growth in the last four decades seems to have had a tremendous effect on poverty reduction (Mathew, 2004). Kerala is the only state in the country where sex ratio is...