India and Poverty
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- Understanding childhood poverty as a multidimensional concept
- P. Dornan; J. Boyden 2011
- This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country. The Young Lives programme is interested in c...
- Extending social security coverage in the BRICS
- International Social Security Association, 2013
- The five countries of the BRICS, Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, are facing some common challenges with regard to ageing of their populations, urbanisation, vulnerability to environmental shocks, increas...
- The developmental impact of Asian drivers on Ethiopia with emphasis on small-scale footwear producers
- T. Gebre-Egziabher / Wiley Online Library, 2009
- This paper examines the developmental impact of China and India on Ethiopia by examining macro-level trade, investment and aid relations, and micro-level impacts on local small-scale footwear producers in Ethiopia. Both secondary and ...
- Energy for rural India
- F. Urban / Elsevier, 2009
- This research investigates how rural electrification could be achieved in India using different energy sources and what effects this could have for climate change mitigation. It uses the Regional Energy Model (REM) to develop scenario...
- The effects of microfinance on household debt in rural India
- T.K. Sarangi (ed) / Eldis Document Store, 2012
- Over the past few years, a drastic change has occurred in the nature of financial services for the rural poor in India. Microfinance has witnessed an explosion in popularity, with the total number of people served by Microfinance Inst...
- A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India
- M. Ravallion / World Bank, 2009
- Brazil, China and India have witnessed falling poverty during their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. This paper compares the experiences of these three countries and elaborates on what they could learn...
- BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs
- N. Mwase / International Monetary Fund, 2012
- Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing as primarily...
- Dignity is part of the empowerment framework to escape childhood poverty
- U. Vennam; J. Andharia / Young Lives, 2012
- In recent years there has been growing interest in researching the dynamics of poverty, including the poverty mobility of households and communities. This paper is a part of a longitudinal study that seeks to improve understanding of ...
- Review of the potential health impacts of climate change in India
- P. K. Singh; R. Dhiman / National Institute of Malaria Research, 2012
- Climate change can have direct negative consequences on a number of health indices, due to climate affecting water, air quality, disease and physical comfort. As the risk of increasingly variable and severe climatic change is becoming...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
- Agewell Foundation
- Outreach and research initiatives for the elderly in India
- SHARAN
- Drug use and treatment in marginalised communities
- The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC)
- Indian urban housing organisation
- Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICCSR)
- Promoting research in Indian social sciences
- Institute of Social Studies Trust, India (ISST)
- Research organisation concerned with the promotion of social justice and gender equity
- Centre for Civil Society, India (CCS)
- Indian Think Tank with a research focus on civil society and social sciences
- Human Development Resource Centre, India
- Translating concepts of human development into action
