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Cash not food – Giving options to the poor

May 6, 2013

Where possible moving from food aid to cash aid makes sense – it transfers decision making to the poor and enables them to decide on what they feel are their economic priorities. After all, there is no reason to believe that the poor cannot make rational economic decisions.

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Job creation in rural India.

March 20, 2013

Considering that millions of poor live in poverty in rural India, how could one go about creating jobs there? My musings..

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Trickledown economics

September 4, 2012

Why are so many development programmes based on the Trickle Down Effect? Should we not be a bit direct?

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Abject hunger in Jharkhand

April 30, 2006

To most of us hunger pangs are that happen when our lunch is delayed by one hour… Have you imagined …

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Poor & aged in rural Maharashtra.

February 18, 2006

Advertisers and marketers are rediscovering the ‘purchasing power’ of the senior citizens. A number of advertisements focusing on the senior …

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Woes of Tribal Maharashtra

February 14, 2006

The homepage of the website of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, government of India has lovely pictures of tribals in …

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