Geneva: Mobile phones - spreading faster than any other information technology - can improve the livelihoods of the poorest people in developing countries, a United Nations report released on Thursday said. But governments must design responsive policies to ensure that the benefits reach the broadest number in the most effective way, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in its Information Economy Report. Mobile phone subscriptions will reach...
12:57 PM, Oct 15, 2010
Manila: It is lunchtime, but the cooking pots are empty outside Nurain Dimalao's shack. Her 7-year-old son plays amid the flies in garbage-strewn sand. She worries where his next meal will come from. Baseco Compound, a shantytown of 50,000 people on the edge of Manila Bay, is the familiar face of poverty in villages and urban slums around the world. Yet there's also good news, albeit qualified -- worldwide, the...
10:53 AM, Sep 16, 2010
The government makes yet another attempt to know who really are the poor in India. ...
01:46 PM, Jul 16, 2010
![Draft of food security law gets NAC's nod]( "Draft of food security law gets NAC's nod")
The NAC has also recommended that 35 kg of foodgrain be supplied per month at Rs 3 a kg to disadvantaged people. ...
11:18 PM, Jul 14, 2010
They allege that the officials are arbitrarily picking up people based on their looks. ...
09:51 AM, Jun 21, 2010
Global economy grew only 1.9 percent in 2008; recession hurting the poorest more. ...
11:27 AM, Apr 21, 2010
Only silver lining is that urban poverty at 27 per cent has seen no change. ...
09:12 AM, Dec 11, 2009
Private hospitals have instructions from courts to treat poor patients for free. ...
03:37 PM, Nov 04, 2009
Over 30 million Indians have joined the ranks of hungry since mid-1990. ...
08:55 AM, Oct 16, 2009
Govt in a bind as 2 committees give different assessments/ ...
06:44 PM, Oct 11, 2009
Country placed 134 among 182 countries in terms of poverty reduction. ...
03:20 PM, Oct 05, 2009
No country has gone this far to adopt a rights-based approach on this scale. ...
12:22 PM, Sep 22, 2009
Yeddyurappa has proposed a Chinese model of population control. ...
04:40 PM, Sep 11, 2009
Manmohan Singh urges 'sensitivity' towards the marginalised. ...
02:18 PM, Sep 07, 2009
Prema Devi is the wife of Suraj Lal Gupta who represented Balrampur district. ...
01:11 PM, Aug 18, 2009
All four boys, aged between 10-16 years, suffer from muscular dystrophy. ...
12:06 PM, Aug 11, 2009
Starvation, husband's death forced national-level athlete into prostitution. ...
03:14 PM, Aug 04, 2009
The job scheme has completely failed to benefit poor labourers. ...
04:13 PM, Jul 30, 2009
Sharp differences exist between NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Sonia Gandhi. ...
02:06 AM, Jul 06, 2009
Old fight over control of minerals in state enters another round. ...
05:59 PM, Jul 02, 2009
