2 Recent survey results on Poverty and FDI

India is home to one-third of the world’s undernourished children, despite impressive economic progress with real GDP per capita growing by 3.95 percent annually from 1980 to 2005. Lawrence Haddad, director of the London-based Institute of Development Studies, told Reuters in an interview that India would not meet UN 2015 targets on improving nutrition.
Haddad said [...]

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Quarter of the World’s hungry lives in India

For years India has been one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and average incomes have been rising. Economic reforms in the early 1990s have been good to the wealthy and a rapidly expanding middle class. According to some estimates, more than 200 million Indians now have spending power rivalling consumers in Australia and the US.
But [...]

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You don’t have a promise to Keep

Despite UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report 2007 which lauded India’s effort to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it said that the country may fall short because of enormity of the out of schoolchildren.
About half (28 million) of the world’s out of schoolchildren are in four countries including India and Pakistan. And, 30 per cent of those [...]

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14 Dicks and 1 Pussy

17-year-old alleges rape by 14 cops
Pune, September 06,  2008:
Men in uniform came in groups of four, raped me till morning, says her complaint; crime branch to probe
A 17-year-old girl from Hyderabad, who was rescued from a brothel in Budhwar Peth in 2006 has alleged that as many as 14 city police personnel had raped her [...]

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Kids exploited in India’s silicon valley

It’s ironical that people who spend a good part of their lives serving food to strangers rarely get to enjoy a hearty meal. As exploitation of employees rapidly becomes the norm in the hotel industry, ineffective regulatory measures add to the problem.
Statistics tell a sorry tale. Last year, 16,592 children were identified as working in [...]

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