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Poverty

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17 July 2010Revisiting Indian Poverty BY C. P. Chandrasekhar
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GDP growth
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Poverty
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12 August 2010Q&A: Duke Professor’s New Poverty Study BY Tripti Lahiri

Duke public policy professor Anirudh Krishna and a team of researchers spent the last decade talking to over 35,000

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Poverty
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poverty reduction
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20 September 2010Crisis of Relevance at the UN BY Bernard Gwertzman

With delegates from around the world assembling in New York for the sixty-fifth annual UN General Assembly, Stewart Patrick, CFR'

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Development
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Education
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Poverty
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United Nations
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20 October 2010Millennium Development Goals & India BY K.S. Jacob

The Millennium Development declaration was a visionary document, which sought partnership between rich and poor nations to make globalisation a force for good. Its signatories

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HIV/AIDS
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Millenium Development Goals
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Poverty
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1 January 2010Multidimensional Poverty Index BY Alkire, Sabina and Maria Emma Santos

The 2010 United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report introduces the Multidimensional

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developing countries
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health
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Poverty
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United Nations
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1 January 2010Multidimensional Poverty Index BY Alkire, Sabina and Maria Emma Santos

The 2010 United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report introduces the Multidimensional

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developing countries
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health
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Poverty
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United Nations
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1 January 2011Population 7 billion BY Robert Kunzig

One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant who is said to have been the long-haired model for two paintings by Johannes Vermeer—“The Astronomer” and “The

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Demographics
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family planning
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global population
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Poverty
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10 January 2011The dark side of globalisation BY , Ramesh Thakur

Although we may not have yet reached “the end of history,” globalisation has brought us closer to “the end of geography” as we have known it. The compression of time and space triggered by the

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emerging markets
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global governance
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Globalization
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inclusive growth
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inequality
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Poverty
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11 March 2011The crisis of microfinance BY Shashi Tharoor

The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist Mohammed Yunus as Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, which blazed a trail for microfinance in developing countries, has

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developing countries
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Grameen Bank
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microfinance
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Muhammad Yunus
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PMFI
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Poverty
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4 June 2011The injustice of our anti-poor schemes BY Surjit S Bhalla

The expansion of poverty programmes in India has been spearheaded by Sonia Gandhi and her National Advisory Council (NAC). She cannot ignore the fact that by expanding old-fashioned anti-poverty

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2G scam
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congress
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corruption
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National Advisory Council
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National Sample Survey Organisation
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Poverty
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right to food
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Sonia Gandhi

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