After fifty years of development, mass poverty still persists in India. This analysis attempts to bring out how various sectors of the economy impinge on the development process. The authors show that two key features to the elimination of poverty in India are transferring labor from\nagriculture...
Why Is There So Much Poverty in India? India has 269 million people (21% of the total population) under the poverty line, as per the latest official headcount of the poor in India. It used to be 396 million (29 percent) prior to the announcement of new counting. However, the World ...
Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
Poverty reductionReallocation effectLabour productivityWe investigate the pattern of India's growth during the last decade, and its implications for poverty reduction. In particular, we focus on the role played by generation of productive employment opportunities in reducing poverty. The paper is first ...
Why, after so much charity from big organizations, is India still a poor country? Economically why is it bad for countries to have a higher population growth rate? If charitable organizations really work, how come there is still so much poverty around the world, particularly in third world co...
Profit and Poverty:Profit is gained when business activity gains revenue exceeding the amount needed to caters for costs and taxes. It does not matter whether the business was selling a product to rich or poor people, but as far as there was a transaction, it is a business. Povert...
There must have been a lot of hard work that went on through the night by the UAE - which has the presidency of this year's COP - to ensure that everyone was pretty much happy with it before it went through. And it did, quickly. It is a remarkable ag...
achieved from the product, the reality of microfinance is incredibly complex. In fact, many argue there is a distinct lack of evidence to show microfinance actually does help to reduce poverty. Over the years, a series of controversial events have given microfinance a reputation for unscrupul...
Why Growth Is Not Enough: Household Poverty Dynamics in Northeast Gujarat, India. Journal of Development Studies, 41 (7): 1163-92.Krishna, A., Kapila, M., Porwal, M. and Singh, V. (2005). 'Why growth is not enough: household poverty dynamics in Northeast Gujarat, India'. Journal of...
“America really does have golden streets that allow immigrants to quickly make more than they could have earned at home,” they write. But, they add, “moving up the economic ladder in America — and catching up to the U.S.-born — takes time.” ...