The fresh hunger map of the world and the India State hunger index (ISHI) published by International Food policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has made lots of revelations to disillusion the common man of India about louder slogans on socio-economic development of the country, foreign direct investments in all sectors to improve the quality of life [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Poverty’
Alarming poverty in India: Global Hunger Index 2009
Posted in India Facts, Poverty, tagged Hindutva, India, Poverty on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All about India’s biggest killer disease of girls and women
Posted in Children, Health, Hindutva, India Facts, Poverty, tagged Hindutva, Poverty on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anaemia is the biggest killer of girls and women in India. The latest National Family Health Survey has shown that most Indians have anaemia. The survey’s findings reveal that over 70% of children, 55 per cent women and about 24 per cent Indian men are anaemic, but unfortunately, few are aware of the same.
UP is [...]
India’s greedy real estate mafia to collapse?
Posted in Business India, Corruption, tagged greed, India, Mumbai, poor, Poverty, recession, rent, rentals, rich, Slums on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Globally, the biggest fall in rents was in Mumbai with Colaba Causeway falling 63.5%, Linking Road Bandra by 63% and Kemps Corner by 60%. In the Americas, Rio de Janeiro’s Sao Conrado Fashion Mall fell 53.4% whilst in Europe, Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei fell 48.1%. This was revealed by a survey conducted by Cushman & Wakefield. [...]
2 Recent survey results on Poverty and FDI
Posted in Business India, India Facts, Poverty, tagged Business, Children, Globalization, Hindutva, India, Poverty on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Quarter of the World’s hungry lives in India
Posted in India Facts, Poverty, tagged Children, Hindutva, India, Poverty on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]