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UNITED NATIONS
Street smart
Karnataka vendors take steps to protect their interests
India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme put on hold
Employment guarantee scheme brought to an abrupt halt
Extracts from 'Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country'
Extracts from Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country by Sudeep Chakravarty....
Women’s Day 2024: Investing in women most effective way to accelerate growth, says UN Women
1 in every 10 women globally lives in extreme poverty; war & crisis eroding decades of progress in gender equality
'Sustainable agriculture paramount to eradicate extreme poverty, hunger'
FAO chief says while past developments in agriculture have led to major improvements in productivity, “progress has been uneven” and …
Africa can learn from Kenya’s renewable energy success, says Kenyan cabinet secretary
Davis Chirchir, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum, speaks on the significant progress made by the country on the …
Dear Minister, here is proof India’s children suffered during COVID-19 lockdown
Accepting that there was a great disruption in the lives of Indian children will pave the way to make rectification measures more effective
Everyone exposed to shock waves of war; largest cost-of-living crisis: UN
In South Asia, more than 0.5 billion affected by Russia-Ukraine war’s impacts on food, finance
Africa’s research ecosystem needs a culture of mentoring
Mentoring can help build the confidence of young scholars, thereby reducing likelihood of brain drain from the region
Creative accounting, window dressing apart Centre's COVID-19 relief package 0.5% of GDP: Jean Drèze
The Centre announced a relief package recently and a few other interim measures after the 21-day nationwide lockdown to combat COVID-19 left …
Indian-origin economist in trio selected for 2019 Economics Nobel
Mumbai-born Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the prize for their approach to fight global poverty
Venezuela: starved and stifled
As people hunt animals from zoos to feed themselves, the President, accused of extrajudicial executions, is busy blaming the US and the …
Report places rural transformation at the heart of economic development
IFAD report bats for emphasis on agriculture and employment to reduce rural poverty
Highlights of Sunita Narain’s speech at IDS Conference in UK
According to her, the world cannot succeed in environmental management unless we achieve inclusive economic growth
Farmers demand law for guaranteed income
Participants voice concern on drought, farmers' suicide and water conservation, among other issues
Government quells homestead land rights protest with yet another assurance
Activists have been demanding that the land reforms Bill be brought in Parliament since 2012
Have some clothes to shed
If governments and multilateral organisations censor critical data on development, imagine how banal is our measurement of progress and growth
Reflection in a pond
As urban residents switch to municipal water, the labour class struggles with disappearing ponds, their main water source. Sorit Gupto …
Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty
The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …
Food benefits are not for the poor
DELIVERANCE FROM HUNGER -- THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN INDIA K R Venugopal Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Rs 225
Beyond progress
DEPRIVING THE UNDERPRIVILEGED FOR DEVELOPMENT·Balaji Pandey·Institute for Socio- Economic Development, Bhubaneshwar·Rs 650
Taking stock
More than 150 nations gather to assess the damage from mounting ecological and social catastrophes
Still in the bind
Least developed countries (LDCs) are caught in a vicious cycle of debt and aid. Stiff and biased trade barriers by industrialised countries helps …
