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Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) is a government-sponsored program in India that aims to provide food at highly subsidized rates to millions of the poorest families in the country. It was launched on December 25, 2000, by the NDA government and was first implemented in the state of Rajasthan.
Garibi Hatao Desh Bachao (Hindi for "Remove poverty, save the country") was the theme and slogan of Indira Gandhi's 1971 election campaign. The slogan and the proposed anti-poverty programs that came with it were designed to give Gandhi an independent national support, based on rural and urban poor, which would allow her to by-pass the dominant rural castes both in and out of state and local ...
The state has a per capita income of $536 a year against India's average of $1470 and 30.6% of the state's population lives below the poverty line against India's average of 22.15%. The level of urbanisation (10.5%) is below the national average (27.78%). Urban poverty in Bihar (32.91%) is above the national average of 23.62%.
For example, among Duflo's earliest papers is an evaluation of a program in which one third of Village Council head positions in India are randomly reserved for women. [ 2 ] [ 16 ] The paper finds that councils led by women invest more in roads and drinking water, public goods that they find women are relatively more likely to complain about in ...
Ministry of Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation (Nepali: सहकारी तथा गरिबी निवारण मन्त्रालय) is a ministry of Nepal that governs policies and programmes for tackling poverty in the country. The current minister is Ek Nath Dhakal. [1]
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National Planning Commission (NPC) of Nepal is advisory body for formulating development plans and policies of the country under the directives of the National Development Council of the government of Nepal. [1] [2] [3] It is the apex advisory body of the Government of Nepal for formulating a national vision, periodic plans and policies for ...