India and Poverty
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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
- Defining the nature of chronic poverty in India
- Aasha Mehta; Amita Shah / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002
- This paper tries to summarise the current state of knowledge about chronic poverty in India and identify the agenda for further research. An overview of the trends in incidence of income poverty in India is provided so as to place chr...
- Poverty reduction in India
- N. C. Saxena / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001
- Paper examines India's attempts at poverty reduction. It asserts that despite good performance on the growth front, progress in reducing poverty in the 1990s has left much to be desired. Concerted policy action is needed to lift the 3...
- Asian Development Bank cautiously optimistic about coming year
- Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
- The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) features:an assessment of economic trends and prospects for the world and for the developing economies of Asia and the Pacificeconomic profiles, economic management issues, development policy concerns an...
- Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?
- Gaurav Datt; Martin Ravallion / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- Experience in India suggests that reducing rural poverty requires both economic growth (farm and non farm) and human resource development. The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India sinc...
- Good governance and constitutional reform: the royal road to poverty alleviation in India?
- D. Nayyar / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
- This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India. Policy recommendations: There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it ...
- Building social capital: collective action, adoption of agricultural innovations, and poverty reduction in the Indian semi-arid tropics
- D. Parthasarathy; V. K Chopde / International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 2000
- Social capital - ability and willingness to co-operate and work together for achieving common goals, and developing norms and networks for collective action - is crucial for successful uptake, diffusion, and impact of technological in...
- Lessons for using community-based methods to promote the adoption of new technologies
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001
- The six case studies presented in this paper intend to show the impact of the application of agricultural technologies in improving food security and eradicating poverty, and lessons to be learned in terms of "best practices " in appr...
- How long will it be before most of the poor live in urban areas?
- M. Ravallion / World Bank, 2001
- Is the urban share of poverty also likely to grow? There is evidence that it has been doing so. Will the poor urbanise faster than the nonpoor? How long will it be before most of the poor live in urban areas? Conditions are ide...
- Access to Land in Rural India
- R. Mearns / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India'...
- Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India
- R. Mearns; S. Sinha / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdi...
- 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
