Poverty has been the world’s most persistent development challenge. Under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world has to end poverty by 2023. A soon to be published World Bank report says that we are much behind the target. Poverty remains consistent in a few countries. These also account for the largest chunk of the […]
India ranked lowest among South Asian country in Global Hunger Index India has been ranked at the 103rd position among 119 countries on the GHI (Global Hunger Index), says a report. According to the report, prepared by Welthungerhilfe (not for – profit group) and Concern Worldwide (works towards improving lives of poor people), India is among […]
Anganwadi services have a poor reach among key beneficiaries that are the poorest of the poor and uneducated mothers, according to a paper published in a WHO bulletin recently. The government’s Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) provides a package of six services at anganwadi or child-care centres to young children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. These […]
Annette Dixon of the World Bank writes: October 17 is the international day to end poverty. There has been much progress toward this important milestone: the World Bank Group’s latest numbers show that since 1990 nearly 1.1 billion people have escaped extreme poverty. Between 2012 and 2013 alone, around 100 million people moved out of […]
Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to 17 October 1987. On that day, over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris , where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948, […]
