USAID boosting rural economy by $50 Million

USAID to give rural economy $50-million boost India Today USAID has also announced that it will set up 30 Rural Business Hubs in eastern India, in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). These hubs would exclusively focus on farmers for disseminating best practices and technologies. ...

Finance to Poor people:UN Backed Initiative

Millions of rural poor to receive banking services under UN-backed initiative Middle East North Africa Financial Network Dec 14, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Two companies from India and South Africa announced today their commitment to provide banking services to 30 million low-income people living in rural areas by 2015, as part of their support for a United ...

Micro finance

Is Microfinance Pushing the World's Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty? New Republic While admitting that access to credit is a handy tool, Mazhar of UBINIG argues that microfinance had been elevated into a shibboleth of market-based theories of development that encourages the withdrawal of the state from rural development in favor of ...

ACCESS Development Services and HSBC Present Microfinance India Awards India Infoline.com YC Nanda is the former chairman of NABARD. He is also an alumnus of Delhi School of Economics. He has been involved with a number of microfinance institutions, rural development agencies, management institutes as Director/Trustee. ...

World Bank (WB) has offered technical assistance

WB offers aid for development Manila Bulletin By RIO ROSE RIBAYA MANILA, Philippines — World Bank (WB) has offered technical assistance that would develop the operation of different government agencies and guarantee sustainable rural development in the country. Joseph Lim, a study consultant for ...

New CGAP paper on randomized evaluations

Randomized Microfinance Evaluations Highlight Opportunities for Improved Product Design
CGAP has released a new paper, Latest Findings from Randomized Evaluations of Microfinance, which synthesizes the latest research findings from around the world on a range of financial services, including credit, savings, and microinsurance. These existing studies offer a foundation for examining when particular products and designs work, for whom, and why, so that products and delivery approaches can be adjusted to meet the needs of poor people. The paper details a number of examples of simple and often inexpensive design tweaks and innovations that have shown significant results.

http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.17970/ 

Shortage class room by 4.6 Lacs

India faces shortage of over 4.6 lakh classrooms Economic Times She also said that under the Jalmani Programme, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has provided a sum of Rs 200 crore to install stand alone water purification systems in rural schools. On a question regarding the enrollment of Muslim ...

Resolution to End poverty: China

Outline shows resolution in ending poverty China Daily "These regions will see intensified efforts aimed at fighting poverty and increased financial input," said Wang Sangui, professor at Renmin University of China's School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. Currently, poverty reduction does ...

Economic Model: China

China's Superior Economic Model Wall Street Journal ... investment in renewable energy; construction of six million homes; and expanding next-generation IT, clean-energy vehicles, biotechnology, high-end manufacturing and environmental protection—all while promoting social equity and rural development. ...

Poverty struggle: India and China

India and China Continue to Struggle with Poverty 2point6billion Their access to compulsory education, basic medical care, and housing will also be ensured." The poverty-stricken population in rural regions – 26.88 million by the end of 2010 – was down from 94.22 million a decade ago, according to a government white ...

India: Rural to Urban transition a crucial crossroad

Why India is at a crucial crossroads
BBC News
These choices will determine how India handles the daunting tasks it faces. These include managing the 

largest-ever rural-to-urban transition under democratic conditions, and working to develop the human 

capital and sustain the ecological and energy ..

Social entrepreneurs making impact where govt fails

India's new social entrepreneurs: making an impact where government fails Economic Times Before coming back to India, he was the country head of General Electric in Malaysia. But Anji Reddy of Dr. Reddy's Lab persuaded him to join his mission on drinking water in rural India. Peturbed by a UN finding that India ranked 120 out 122 nations ...

China: Drop in Rural Poverty

China reports dramatic drop in rural poverty CNN International (blog) "Wage growth is the key to understanding this whole development in China," said Duncan Innes-Ker, Beijing-based senior editor and economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Ker said the dramatic decrease "doesn't shock him at all" citing the ...

School and education

In India, Schooling Isn't Always Education: Choudhury Bloomberg The Annual Status of Education Report (ASeR), conducted each year since 2005 in all rural districts of the country, shows that in 2010, [only] 53% of Std 5 children in rural India could read a Std 2 level text and 36% could solve a three digit by one ...

World Bank blessings to India

Background Notes : India Middle East North Africa Financial Network The World Bank planned to double aid to India to almost $3 billion a year, with focus on infrastructure, education, health, and rural livelihoods. The supreme command of the Indian armed forces is vested in the president of India. ...

India 'dirtiest' country

India remains 'dirtiest' country, laments Ramesh Deccan Chronicle During an interaction with the audience, Ramesh said: "I am concerned. The biggest challenge I am facing, as a rural development minister, is to educate people about sanitation. 60 per cent of all open defecation in the world are in India. ...

Brewing $85 trillion Indian Economy

Building an $85-trillion Indian economy Economic Times Fertility rates of increasingly educated urban and rural Indian women will dip from today's 2.6 to 1.7, which is when a country's birth and death rates equalise. A large number of working-age Indians between 18 and 60, however, will be less than ...

$35 Tablet witness, boosts education

India's $35 Tablet Gets Upgrade, Boosts Education Mobiledia Rural Indians especially face many obstacles to upward mobility, but devices like Aakash may assist them in furthering their education and ultimately taking control of their fate. India's $35 Tablet Gets Upgrade , Boosts Education.

World Bank: Poor quality of education in India

Quality of education in India remains poor: World Bank Economic Times "Our contribution is to bring knowledge and experience to help design education policy. In terms of monetary help, we only contribute a drop in the bucket," she said. King also praised the education policy for girl child in Haryana, saying she saw ...

India: Economic inequality is causing social and political turmoil

India's poverty gap widens Channel News Asia "What actually can make a difference is education, to begin with primary education, till technical education." India plans to take people out of the agricultural sector into more organised jobs. Currently, agriculture contributes 15 per cent to the ...

Rural contribute to India Internet uses growth

India to Overtake US in Internet Use Voice of America The survey says Indians in urban areas mostly access the Internet for email, social networking and education-related content. Those living in rural areas used the web to email, get general information, and access music, videos and images. ...

English medium schools in Rural

English Medium High School in a Rural Area, Investment project in ... We established the English medium school in a rented building on 2008 and still continuing with 124 students with 4 teachers getting 100000 income as fees ... https://www.merar.com/.../english-medium-high-school-in-a-r...

Paris of Haryana, India

Over 1.7L illiterate in Panchkula Times of India PANCHKULA: Panchkula, known as the Paris of Haryana, is suffering at the literacy count. As per the record and data provided by the district administration, out of a population of more than 4 lakh, 1,70616 are illiterates. ...

Community Radio

Community radio as a means to empower rural masses Livemint There are no school dropouts in the Gop block of Puri district in Orissa and it has nothing do to with the efforts of the government. For several years, nobody applied for work under India's rural job guarantee scheme from the area; recently, ...

Stanford gets $150 million to fight world poverty

"We wondered, how might we do something bold and significant," said King, who earned his MBA at Stanford in 1960. 

"Something like giving light to the slums (without electricity) in Nairobi, or something to improve the health of the 

children born there. Something that could combat malaria or alleviate AIDS in Africa."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/04/BUNO1LQAVP.DTL#ixzz1ckH20xEd

Measuring growth

http://www.kuenselonline.com/2011/?p=19907

Poverty, Inequality, and Unemployment if all three indicators declined, it can be called 'Development'. On the other hand, if it remains the same or has worsened; it cannot be called development even if the country’s per capita income doubles.

School time....

Educating India

Azim Premji to start two free schools in every district
Times of India

The foundation plans to start 1300 schools across the country- two per district - 

which will be free, impart education in the local language and be affiliated to the 

state board. If the idea succeeds, it could shame India's dysfunctional public ...

Rural Education India

RTE fails to lift education in rural areas: Report Economic Times NEW DELHI: As the government gears up for a year-long campaign to spread awareness about the Right to Education, a report on teaching and learning in rural India finds that progress in learning ability of students has not been commensurate to the ...

Rural Education status India - ASER report

Village students 2 grade below in proficiency: study Indian Express The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) about 'teaching and learning in rural India' covered 30000 children in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan to assess the children's abilities and what most affected their ...

Hans Rosling - Asias rise how and when

At the time of his visit to Bangalore (one month course on Public Health), he realized India studied harder than me. Indian read two to three times a book and, we, read once & move to potty.

India will be in level with US, UK and Japan on 27th July, 2048. Very interesting, watch this.

Anoop Singh - India-linked-or-delinked

With economic growth expected to continue at a reasonably good clip this year and next, it's all too easy to think there's not much to worry about. Even as Diwali celebrations begin across India, the outlook for the world economy is fairly uneven and uncertain. More worrisome than the subdued global growth outlook, risks are building up especially in Europe -- and these include an extreme scenario with financial disruption.