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19-11-2009
Both Sinhala and Tamil Sri Lankans want to leave the country for reasons of security and to seek better economic opportunities abroad. While some go through legal channels, there are many who take an illegal route at great personal risks.
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Image: An illegal migrant who set off for New Zealand from northwestern Sri Lanka, only to run into Australian immigration officials. Despite a harrowing journey, he is willing to try again/ Photo credit: IRIN
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19-11-2009
Nepal's rural poor will get to manage hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land with financial assistance from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This will not only help tackle the rapid deforestation but will also generate income for the poor.
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Image: Putting Nepal's forests in the hands of community people/ Photo credit: Community Forestry Workshop
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17-11-2009
In spite of the provision for mandatory unemployment allowance under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, most states in India have failed to comply with the law. Officials are describing it as a major administrative lapse.
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12-11-2009
A new generation among the farming community in India is not interested in taking up agriculture as a profession as it is increasingly getting less profitable. Agriculture’s share in the country’s GDP shrunk to 17.5% last year from nearly 30% in the early 1990s.
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09-11-2009
India Economic Summit is underway in the national capital to ponder over the country’s next generation of growth. There is a huge challenge before policymakers to create jobs in far-off areas and stop rural inhabitants from migrating to urban centres.
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Image: In rural India life revolves around crops and monsoons/ Photo credit: BBC
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30-10-2009
A plantation drive being carried out in the districts of an eastern Indian state is helping villagers get employment through nurturing tree saplings. Engaging rural households with social forestry has brought them relief during failed monsoons.
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Image: The scheme has caught on because drought has rendered farmers jobless/ Photo credit: Down to Earth
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15-10-2009
Myanmar is one of the most impoverished countries in the Southeast Asian region, prompting people to move out of the country in search of livelihood opportunities. Malaysia, among others, attracts many Burmese workers due to huge demand in its construction and plantation industries, but many of them are vulnerable to human traffickers.
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Image: Burmese migrant workers at a construction site in the compound of the Burmese Buddhist temple in Penang/ Photo credit: IRIN
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24-09-2009
A civil servant from Bihar has successfully involved the rural populace in a green drive under the country’s rural employment scheme. Such innovative ideas are linking environmental challenges with those of sustainable development.
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Image: Re-forestation initiative in Bihar/ Photo credit: Prashant Ravi/ BBC
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18-09-2009
If G20 takes adequate measures, it can save up to 11 million jobs in 2009, according to the ILO head. Ahead of the summit in Pittsburgh next week, the UN body has predicted global unemployment hitting an all time high due to continued labour market deterioration.
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Image: Every year around 45 million men and women enter the global labour market/ Photo credit: AFP
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16-09-2009
The Pakistan government has launched an income generation programme for poor families. Under the scheme, interest-free and long-term loans will be provided to ‘needy and deserving’ people.
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Image: President Asif Ali Zardari addressing during the launching ceremony of Waseela-e-Haq Initiative/ Photo credit: APP
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