It should hopefully be clear to BBM and our policymakers that unless they tackle agrarian reform first, nothing they are thinking of doing will make our agricultural sector more productive.

In the region, India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3 per cent in 2022-23 from 27.1 percent in 2011-12, according to the latest estimates released by the World Bank.

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The bank also lopped 0.4 percentage ... Japan, economic growth is expected to accelerate this year – but only from 0.2% in 2024 to a sluggish 0.7% this year, well short of the 1.2% the World Bank had ...

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At the international poverty rate ($2.15 in 2017 PPP) poverty in Kenya is projected to decline by half a percentage point to 34% in 2025. Structural reforms that raise the productivity of the private ...

“The percentage of households covered by 5G (all spectrum bands) rose by 5.3 percentage points, from 89.0% in 2023 to 94.3% in 2024. This represents a year-on-year increase of 6.0%.

Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

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Immediately after murdering Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New ...

About 39 percent of the city’s children were living in poverty in 2014, well more than twice the poverty rate for children across the state, according to the 2016 Kids Count Data Book, a report ...

India has made substantial strides in social protection, expanding coverage from 22% in 2016 to 64.3% in 2025. Poverty has ...