More than half of Fiji’s rural population lives in poverty
This contributes to 62.2 per cent of the country's total poor population of around 900,000 people.
This contributes to 62.2 per cent of the country's total poor population of around 900,000 people.
He made these remarks at the exclusive Reimagining Poverty Alleviation in India roundtable organized by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia in New Delhi on Thursday.
In an exclusive interview to The Statesman, PM Narendra Modi underscores the need for a strong government and a clear vision for India's progress. He discusses plans for the middle class, youth employment, successes in Jammu and Kashmir, and Bengal's future, highlighting the importance of a significant electoral mandate for effective governance and a Viksit Bharat by 2047.
China is about to celebrate ten years of its infrastructure building Belt and Road Initiative BRI) a symbol of its rise as a global power and a defining feature of its foreign policy which it touts as its gift to the world it claims to have created more than 420,000 lakh jobs and lifted 40 million people out of poverty.
Poor and developing countries need to use their natural resources even if at unsustainable levels, because these are the only resources available for their sustenance. Many estimates have pointed out that nearly half of the worlds population ekes out a living from degraded resources like land and forests. In the future, these resources might not be able to sustain productive livelihoods. But there is no alternative
“The pandemic wiped out more than four years of progress on poverty eradication and pushed 93 million more people into extreme poverty in 2020. It has disrupted essential health services, resulting in a drop in immunization coverage for the first time in a decade and a rise in deaths from tuberculosis and malaria, among many other impacts. Prolonged school closures put 24 million learners from pre-primary to university levels at risk of not returning to school.”
The international poverty industry is worth trillions of US dollars a year. It is bursting with experts, advisors, and consultants. There is a surfeit of reports, studies, books, publications, Ph.D. grants, consultancies, loans. Rural development is now dominated by a new breed of savvy professionals calling themselves development experts.
According to sources, the food packet would contain puffed rice, rice, pulses, biscuits and some more dry items. The packets would be labeled as ‘courtesy West Bengal Government and West Bengal Police’. Currently, the state government provides free ration to economically weaker sections of the society.
Afghanistan is considered the worst place to be a child, as 4 million children are out of school and 2 million are working as child labourers, according to estimates by international organisations.
The Expert Group (Tendulkar) computed PL for 2004-05 at a level that was equivalent, in Purchasing Power Parity terms to Rs 27 for rural India and Rs 33 for urban India. Percentage of population below PL calculated by the Lakdawala Committee and the Tendulkar Committee for the year 2004-2005 appears. (see table above).
