Tag: India
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Is India winning the war on poverty?
BBC: Is India winning the war on poverty? Is India winning the battle against poverty? Going by the latest figures, yes. The number of Indians living in extreme poverty has fallen from 37% to 22% in the past seven years, according to the latest official data from the Planning Commission. The good news is that…
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Caste and entrepreneurship in India
BBC: Caste and entrepreneurship in India The story of India's economic surge is dominated by two conflicting narratives. … Delving into the relationship between caste and entrepreneurship, the researchers have found that scheduled castes and tribes, the most disadvantaged groups in Hinduism's hierarchy, owned very little businesses despite a decade of sprightly economic growth and…
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Wal-Mart Thinks It Can Fix India’s Insanely Bureaucratic Food Supply System
Business Insider: Wal-Mart Thinks It Can Fix India's Insanely Bureaucratic Food Supply System Last week I linked an article reporting that rich countries are trashing up to half of all food. Our distribution channels are good, but we tend to waste a lot of food through our consumption habits. Emerging nations are wasting food too…
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Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report
New Geography: Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report There has been a substantial reduction in both the extreme poverty rate and the number of people living in extreme poverty since the early 1980s, according to information from the World Bank poverty database. The World Bank maintains data on developing world nations, which include both low…
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Finally, Globalization May Help American Workers
U.S. News: Finally, Globalization May Help American Workers It's a stunning thought: The United States, long dependent on foreign oil, may actually achieve energy independence over the next two decades. And by 2030 it could become a net exporter of oil. … … That intriguing possibility has generated most of the headlines, but the IEA…
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Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5B of Food
BloombergBusinessweek: Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5B of Food Ram Kishen, 52, half-blind and half- starved, holds in his gnarled hands the reason for his hunger: a tattered card entitling him to subsidized rations that now serves as a symbol of India’s biggest food heist. Kishen has had nothing from the village shop…