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Less than 500 days left, can India meet its MDG targets?

Going by current trends, the target for reducing infant mortality and improving other human development indices seem near impossible to achieve Less that 500 days are left ...

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Sustainable Development

The real shoots of economic revival lie in agriculture

The rains have fallen short. An agrarian crisis is seemingly upon us. The Green Revolution was supposed to take care of everything. It was supposed to reduce dependence on ...

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Sustainable Development

India’s poor may shrink 75% by new World Bank formula

The number of poor people in India, as counted by the world, will soon change dramatically. The World Bank has revised the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) index and the globa...

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Environment

U.S. Leadership in Climate Change Starts with India

Editor’s note: In an excerpt from his book Still Ours to Lead, Bruce Jones argues that supporting clean energy growth in India offers the U.S. a starting point for ad...

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Environment

10 reasons to be hopeful that we will overcome climate change

From action in China and the US to falling solar costs and rising electric car sales, there is cause to be hopeful For the last few months, carbon dioxide concentrations in...

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Hollywood

Soledad O'Brien To Speak At Texas Conference For Women

The 2014 Texas Conference for Women has announced that Soledad O’Brien – award-winning journalist, documentarian, news anchor and producer – and Diana Nya...

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Environment

Climate change ‘single biggest hindrance’ to human development

The recently released Human Development Report has identified six major threats to human development and proposed a set of policies and reforms to address these vulnerabili...

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Sustainable Development

New poverty line: Rs 32 for rural India, Rs 47 for urban India

The latest report by Rangarajan committee has added almost 100 million more people to the list of poor The expert committee set up by the Planning Commission last year unde...

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Sustainable Development

Poverty And Prosperity In India: A Story of 28 States

The Government’s work should be to listen to the poor, to work for the poor, and live for (the poor)”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first speech in ...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable development goals face $2.5 trillion funding shortfall

UN report says climate, poverty and health targets will require huge cash injection from private sector The UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) will fail unless...

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