Full Coverage: Poverty

22.02.2007 According to a World Health Organisation survey, many Indian families, whose inability to access or afford water, sanitation and nutritious food has made them more prone to ill-health, have been pushed below the poverty line by the rising cost of healthcare

22.02.2007 Could Zimbabwe be on the brink of a societal breakdown? Doctors and nurses have been on strike for more than a month, and as a teacher strike looms, police violently broke up a political rally Monday.

20.02.2007 NEW YORK, Feb 20 (OneWorld) - UNICEF is best known for its work on behalf of children in the developing world, but its latest report turns an eye to the well-being of children in 21 wealthy nations including the United States, which ranks second to the bottom overall.

19.02.2007 “Felix” and “Roma Star” NGOs held a round-table discussion in Bitola, last week, to discuss the topic “Implementation of Strategy for the Roma Facilitates EU Integration”. In the discussion, they came to the conclusion that two memoranda of cooperation need to be signed as soon as possible, one with the local self-government and the other with Employment Agency.

14.02.2007 The state of California in the United States has for a while been the standard bearer of policy measures that reduce state responsibility in critical areas that were typically the responsibility of public provision earlier. The privatisation of electricity utilities was one infamous example, in which California led the world and ended up providing a textbook case of how not to privatise power distribution.

13.02.2007 Magsaysay 2001 awardee Rajendra Singh, responsible for reviving thousands of tanks and five rivers in Rajasthan in the last two decades by working with rural poor, has an interesting observation.

12.02.2007 Faced with energetic and widespread popular protests against special economic zones, India has decided to go slow on this particular model of industrialisation based on creating export-oriented tax-free enclaves.

08.02.2007 Many Bhutanese women and children are dying still dying unnecessarily, according to a report by the National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC). For infants, while pneumonia is the major killer, thousands are still dying from diarrhea. A high proportion of these deaths are in the first weeks of life. Many children are stunted or underweight or lack vital micronutrients

07.02.2007 South Asia still has nearly 400 million poor people in a population of 1.42 billion. Although, on the criteria of purchasing power parity (PPP) of US$ 1 a day, the scale of poverty has come down from 51.3 per cent to 31.3 per cent in 2001, the challenges to overcome poverty are so enormous that the efforts being made to alleviate poverty are far from being equal to the task. Poverty is not just endemic, but it is increasingly concentrated in the lagging regions.

06.02.2007 Will the Sri Lankan government forego recent military gains in Tamil rebel-held areas of the island and heed the advice of donors to resume dialogue with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

05.02.2007 A curious nine-year-old Mukesh Vanzara ventured out of his home in Asarwa on September 6 last year to watch a religious procession. Still in his school uniform, that was the last his mother saw of him. Since then, it has been countless rounds to the Shahibaug police station for the poor and completely broken Vanzaras.

01.02.2007 It has become a cliché to say that there are two countries, India and Bharat. And yet, it is a truth whose full significance is being experienced and digested only as the multifarious processes of a globalised capitalist economy unfold in the two countries.