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
- Participation in Self-help Group Activities and its Impacts: Evidence from South India
- D S kumar / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- Institution building is now recognized as vital for poverty reduction across the world. This paper focuses on the determinants of participation in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and its impacts on household welfare. The participation in SHG ...
- Making a difference in the lives of women and girls: success stories
- United Nations Development Programme, 2012
- Decades of poverty, deep-rooted caste hierarchies, and gender inequality do not change overnight. But in Uttar Pradesh, thousands of women are working together to empower themselves, creating new opportunities for social change.
- Grassroots speakout on UN Women: outcome document
- Huairou Commission, 2011
- On March 2nd, grassroots women leaders from around the world voiced their key recommendations and experiences to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Dr. Michelle Bachelet, and other representatives of UN Women ...
- Pensions in Asia and the Pacific
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012
- In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD ...
- Older women in India face marginalisation
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+). This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from the mainstream of the society. Livi...
- The importance of urban management in mitigating disasters in India
- A. Revi (ed) / Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
- India is one of the more vulnerable and risk-prone countries in the world, but its population have learned to cope with a wide range of natural and human-made hazards. Rapid population growth, high densities, poverty and high differen...
- Resources from Young Lives study on childhood poverty
- Young Lives, 2011
- Working papers from the Young Lives study. Papers below date from 2010-2011. Please see the site for further selection of papers dating back to 2002. 'I'd rather be hit with a stick...Grades are sacred'...
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- How to assess wellbeing
- Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2011
- Wellbeing is experienced when people have what they need for life to be good. This briefing introduces the model of wellbeing assessment being developed and applied by Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways in its three-year research project ...
- Taking a look at the steps needed to achieve the water MDG and the World Summit for Sustainable Development sanitation goal
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate...
- 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
