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Rural development can eradicate poverty: Gogoi

The government has to focus more on development of rural areas for eradicating poverty and unemployment, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said. Speaking during the inauguration ceremony of a hostel and guest house for women at Kahikuc [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Rural Chinese shake off poverty through self-development

On a muggy summer day in Xiuning County of central Anhui Province, Wu Fengfeng still chops wood with a five-kilogram carpenter axe in a workshop of the non-profit Desheng Carpentry School. The 18-year-old boy, who is from a poor rural [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty on the rise in rural areas of US

According to new estimates released on Tuesday by the US Census Bureau, which is part of the Department of Commerce, poverty in rural areas rose significantly between 2006 and 2009, to the point where over 15 percent of rural US citizens [...]

Posted On : Jan, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Rural poverty hitch in national progress

With the advent of economic liberalisation, the government has increasingly relinquished its role as an active player in the economy, becoming more of a referee as the private sector takes centre stage. This is what the divestiture of pa [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Fighting Rural Poverty Through Fair Trade

The increase in food prices coupled with the financial crisis has reversed the achievements of poverty alleviation programs in many developing countries in Africa and Asia. As a result of the food price hike and the financial crisis [...]

Posted On : Jan, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

High Poverty Risk for Southern Rural Kids

A child living on a remote Southern farm may be at a higher risk of poverty than counterparts in the city, as schools struggle to develop new opportunities and factories shut down what few jobs are available, according to a new report. The [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Rural poverty a 'serious problem'

year-long study has found that more than one in six people in south east Scotland is living in poverty. The Commission on Poverty and Social Exclusion was set up last year to investigate the scale of the problem in the Scottish Borders. It [...]