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
Discover the incredible progress India has made as 415 million people rise out of poverty in just 15 years.
A recent paper by the Brookings Institution’s Stuart M. Butler and Nehath Sheriff underlines the impact of the US’ Housing First program, which shows that providing stable housing can improve the efficacy of psychiatric and substance abuse treatment as well as aid in connecting individuals to social services.
The World Bank projected a growth rate of 6.5 per cent for the Indian economy for the fiscal year 2022-23, a drop of one per cent from its previous June 2022 projections, citing the deteriorating international environment.
Families experiencing economic hardships may have severe difficulty in adequately caring for their children and eventually this leads to their abandonment.
She has been with her current employer since 2005 and has seen her monthly wage increase from P3,500 to P12,000 a month. Still, Rosalyn complains that her earnings are never enough.
“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.
