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Hi Greg. Thanks for sharing the link to you site. It looks very interesting. One of the issues in India where most of the poor have limited land is that when they grow cash crops (including bio fuels) they compromise their own food security. I am ta…
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Hello Surya, Thank you for your response. I am afraid, I am not the Ipsita Basu from Surat. I appreciate your optimism, but the point is to mainstream good ideas into sustainable livelihood outcomes at the macro level. Somehow we seem to be obsessed…
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Hi Greg O' Neill, I hope you well fine, Here it gives me a great pleasure to shortly introduce my NGO Name "Proud Pakistan Balochistan" (PPB) working for the uplifting of poorest, deprived, disadvantaged and marginalized communities especially women…
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Hi Ipsita .... We should dialog soon. www.whitetigerfarm.com is my site online. There is a group of investors in Germany right now considering my project for funding. They want me to take it to India, Vietnam, and other countries, as their partner.…
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Is this Ipsita Basu who used to live at Kribhco, Surat? Please see http://www.a4eskills.co.uk and www.domesteq.com They are generating jobs in millions and reaching out to sub $1 earners. Social enterprises or social businesses are the solution to…
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While health is a fundamental human right, many in the developing countries have little access to medicines resulting in preventable suffering and death. Poor remain untreated simply because the medicines are out of their reach. Balancing profit mot…
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Sarva Siksha Abhiyan is the government of India’s flagship program aimed at providing useful and relevant elementary education for all children in the 6 to 14 age group by 2010. The program was originally slated to be completed by 2003. It was exten…
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• In 2008, 3.6 million women fell ill with TB and 700 000 women died from TB • TB is the third leading cause of death worldwide among women aged 15-44. • Once infected, women of reproductive age are more susceptible to developing TB disease than men…
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Are we running out of ideas on livelihood? Or is it that great ideas are not getting mainstreamed? Are we pre-occupied with some mantras and refusing to let go of them? Is it not time for a change? That livelihood generation for a billion plus popu…
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What is the point in having the District Human Development Reports (DHRD)? Are we not just reinventing the wheel and giving in a nice international name? If the district machinery is already not aware of the state of the affairs despite their bulky…
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What comes to mind when we think about access to medicine? Availability? Unfortunately, that is not what those in charge of creating and or influencing access to drugs think about when the issue is debated in international arenas involving the major…
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While it is all right to write about it in development literature, who is indeed serious? Given that participation is a time consuming process, for the poor, it is an expensive act with a high opportunity cost. That they still participate in many pr…
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Why are the Public Work programs not really owned by the NGOs? Is it because there are ideological differences- civil society believes in creating awareness about livelihood rights. It engages in creating enabling environment for work and in creatin…
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By the third decade of this century, WHO predicts that depression, traffic accidents and heart disease are to become the leading disease burdens in developing countries, as opposed to respiratory disease, diarrohea and peri-natal conditions, which a…
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Who decides what global health issues get priority in terms of action and funding?   Surely, these are political decisions where such factors as visibility and perceptions tend to get precedence over scientific research.   In India for example, we h…
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“We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation and basic health care.”- Kofi Annan, United Nati…
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Caste census: Operational issues or ideological blocks?

The Home Ministry has declared that inclusion of caste in the current census may not be possible because enumeration had already rolled out. The Ministry has citied logistical constraints rather than ideological considerations stating that if deemed necessary, a caste count could be handled by some other agency like the National Commission for Backward Classes rather than being made a part of the decennial census. What does this mean- does it mean moving away from the commitment to establish a s… Continue

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Human Beings as part of the Environment

World Environment day celebrated on the 5th of June provides yet another opportunity to reflect on the man-nature relationship- it is necessarily dialectical? Does it always imply an inherent conflict? Can one perceive of nature, environment, ecology without human beings in it?



Keith Bosak in his study of Nanda Devi Biospehere Reserve notes that much of the debate concerning nature and environment focuses on problems of ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation rather

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Posted on June 11, 2010 at 1:24am —

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The Impossible Act of Targeting: Poverty Estimates and Food Security

The recent decision of the central government to set up a central food security fund to compensate the Below Poverty Line (BPL) beneficiaries of the Targeted Public Distribution system (TPDS) who fail to get the proposed mandatory 25 kgs of wheat or rice per family a month at a subsidized rate of Rs 3 a kg has again raised the question regarding the whole idea of identifying those below the poverty line and those above it.



The issue has always been contentious and even today th

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Gender Inequality and Women’s Health: Evidence and Agenda


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The world is a tweet!

· ‘100 million Facebook members for Democracy in Iran’ on Facebook has 234,847 members.

· A Google search on the keywords “Iran election protests,” returns more than five million (5,740,000 to be precise) results.

· Students in Moldova used Twitter as a tool to mobilize opposition against a communist victory in Moldovian elections

The role of the social networking got extensive media coverage after the disputed election results in Iran and the following protests. Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia,… Continue

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Imagination or reality, we must believe that every conscious thought, vision, or intention directed towards a vibrant civil society is manifesting in the moment. Moment by moment, we can create and reinvent a sustainable culture that works this time around.
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Hi Greg. Thanks for sharing the link to you site. It looks very interesting. One of the issues in India where most of the poor have limited land is that when they grow cash crops (including bio fuels) they compromise their own food security. I am ta…
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Hello Surya, Thank you for your response. I am afraid, I am not the Ipsita Basu from Surat. I appreciate your optimism, but the point is to mainstream good ideas into sustainable livelihood outcomes at the macro level. Somehow we seem to be obsessed…
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Innovation Flash, Issue 7 - August 2010 Should we keep on calling insurance at the bottom of the pyramid "microinsurance?" That is the question Peter Wrede from AKAM proposes to discuss in the editorial. The Newsletter highlights the Facility's new…
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