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Poverty Declines To 8.5% From 21.2% In 2011-2012, Says Think Tank: Report
Poverty in India is estimated to have declined to 8.5 per cent in 2022-24 from 21.2 per cent in 2011-12, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, according to a research paper by the economic think tank NCAER.
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India Contributes $1 Million To Fund Combating Poverty And Hunger
India has contributed USD 1 million to a fund established by India, Brazil and South Africa which undertake projects aimed at alleviating poverty and hunger.
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Uyghur Camps Turned Into Prisons, Detainees Get Long Sentences: Report
Under the guise of a poverty alleviation campaign, Beijing has been forcing tens of thousands of rural Uyghurs out of their villages and into factories.
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Reclaim Territory "Encroached" By China, Demands Nepal Civic Group
A civic group in Nepal has submitted a memorandum to Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Shashi Shrestha, demanding to claim country's territory occupied by China.
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Take Action, Lessen Plight Of Homeless In 8 Weeks: Rights Body To Centre
National Human Rights Commission quizzed Secretaries of various Central Ministries including Home, Health and Family Welfare, and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, over plight of millions of homeless people and street children during pandemic.
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PM Modi Pays Tributes To MG Ramachandran On Birth Anniversary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to AIADMK founder and former Tamil Nadu chief minister MG Ramachandran on his birth anniversary and lauded his efforts towards poverty alleviation and emphasis on women empowerment.
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Abhijit Banerjee Lauds Delhi Government Schools For Outperforming Private Peers
The comments from the MIT professor, whose work on poverty alleviation won him the coveted Nobel Prize recently, come weeks ahead of the Delhi polls.
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Odisha Partners With Abhijit Banerjee's J-PAL To Alleviate Poverty
The Odisha government has entered into partnership with an organisation co-founded by Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo to maximise the impact of anti-poverty programmes across a wide range of sectors in the state.
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"Long Way" In Helping Poor: Mamata Banerjee On Abhijit Banerjee's Theory
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her government is committed to alleviating poverty and the theory by Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on it will go a long way in helping the poor.
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West Bengal Government Committed To Alleviating Poverty: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the state government is committed to alleviating poverty besides reducing unemployment, combating illiteracy and upholding human rights.
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Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee's Economist Mother, Mamata Banerjee Talk Poverty Alleviation Over Tea
Nobel winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee's economist mother Professor Nirmala Banerjee, in an hour long 'adda' with Mamata Banerjee this afternoon told the chief minister she must create greater awareness about her government's interventions to alleviate poverty in West Bengal among potential beneficiaries and the general public so they could make inf...
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"Immense Pride": Manmohan Singh On Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee on Monday for getting the Nobel Prize and said his work on poverty alleviation and development of new techniques was truly pathbreaking.
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A JNU Link In Nirmala Sitharaman's Congratulations For Abhijit Banerjee
Compliments flooded the social media when Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and two others won the Nobel Prize for Economics for their efforts at alleviating global poverty on Monday. But it was a tweet from Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister and Mr Banerjee's fellow-alumnus from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, that stood o...
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Abhijit Banerjee, The Man Who Took On Global Poverty And Won A Nobel
Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee created headlines across the world today when he, along with two other world-renowned experts in field, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
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Economics Nobel Prize: "Big Day For Every Indian": Congratulations Pour In For Abhijit Banerjee
After Mumbai-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the Nobel Prize for Economics, social media was flooded with an outpouring of wishes, for the three, who won the coveted prize for their ""experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
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Poverty Declines To 8.5% From 21.2% In 2011-2012, Says Think Tank: Report
Poverty in India is estimated to have declined to 8.5 per cent in 2022-24 from 21.2 per cent in 2011-12, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, according to a research paper by the economic think tank NCAER.
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India Contributes $1 Million To Fund Combating Poverty And Hunger
India has contributed USD 1 million to a fund established by India, Brazil and South Africa which undertake projects aimed at alleviating poverty and hunger.
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Uyghur Camps Turned Into Prisons, Detainees Get Long Sentences: Report
Under the guise of a poverty alleviation campaign, Beijing has been forcing tens of thousands of rural Uyghurs out of their villages and into factories.
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Reclaim Territory "Encroached" By China, Demands Nepal Civic Group
A civic group in Nepal has submitted a memorandum to Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Shashi Shrestha, demanding to claim country's territory occupied by China.
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Take Action, Lessen Plight Of Homeless In 8 Weeks: Rights Body To Centre
National Human Rights Commission quizzed Secretaries of various Central Ministries including Home, Health and Family Welfare, and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, over plight of millions of homeless people and street children during pandemic.
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PM Modi Pays Tributes To MG Ramachandran On Birth Anniversary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to AIADMK founder and former Tamil Nadu chief minister MG Ramachandran on his birth anniversary and lauded his efforts towards poverty alleviation and emphasis on women empowerment.
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Abhijit Banerjee Lauds Delhi Government Schools For Outperforming Private Peers
The comments from the MIT professor, whose work on poverty alleviation won him the coveted Nobel Prize recently, come weeks ahead of the Delhi polls.
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Odisha Partners With Abhijit Banerjee's J-PAL To Alleviate Poverty
The Odisha government has entered into partnership with an organisation co-founded by Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo to maximise the impact of anti-poverty programmes across a wide range of sectors in the state.
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"Long Way" In Helping Poor: Mamata Banerjee On Abhijit Banerjee's Theory
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her government is committed to alleviating poverty and the theory by Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on it will go a long way in helping the poor.
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West Bengal Government Committed To Alleviating Poverty: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the state government is committed to alleviating poverty besides reducing unemployment, combating illiteracy and upholding human rights.
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Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee's Economist Mother, Mamata Banerjee Talk Poverty Alleviation Over Tea
Nobel winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee's economist mother Professor Nirmala Banerjee, in an hour long 'adda' with Mamata Banerjee this afternoon told the chief minister she must create greater awareness about her government's interventions to alleviate poverty in West Bengal among potential beneficiaries and the general public so they could make inf...
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"Immense Pride": Manmohan Singh On Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee on Monday for getting the Nobel Prize and said his work on poverty alleviation and development of new techniques was truly pathbreaking.
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A JNU Link In Nirmala Sitharaman's Congratulations For Abhijit Banerjee
Compliments flooded the social media when Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and two others won the Nobel Prize for Economics for their efforts at alleviating global poverty on Monday. But it was a tweet from Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister and Mr Banerjee's fellow-alumnus from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, that stood o...
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Abhijit Banerjee, The Man Who Took On Global Poverty And Won A Nobel
Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee created headlines across the world today when he, along with two other world-renowned experts in field, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
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Economics Nobel Prize: "Big Day For Every Indian": Congratulations Pour In For Abhijit Banerjee
After Mumbai-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the Nobel Prize for Economics, social media was flooded with an outpouring of wishes, for the three, who won the coveted prize for their ""experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
