Poverty forcing people to resort to begging: Study (ht 17/03/2018)
Poverty estimates: Robust methodology needed, by Dilli Raj Khanal (ht 24/01/2018)
Distribution of ID cards for poor under way (ht 16/01/2018)
29 out of 100 people poor: Govt uses Multidimensional Poverty Index to measure national poverty for the first time, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 21/12/2017), Poverty under multi-dimensional index halved in 8 yrs, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 21/12/2017), Targeting the poor: Reasons for poverty differ across provinces and require distinct intervention efforts (kp 22/12/2017)
A
third of migrant households in Sunsari remain poor: Study; It has found
that about 30 percent households, who were previously better off,
became rather poorer after migrating overseas (kp 17/12/2017)
Distribution of Poor ID cards starts in 5 districts, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 24/11/2017)
Income
for all: Using the basic income guarantee approach, around Rs 214
billion a year will be needed to uplift the 25.2 percent of our total
population still living in poverty, by Bamdev Paudel (rep 25/10/2017)
Nepalis spending 13% of daily income for a food-plate (rep 23/10/2017)
Close to 400k people ‘below poverty line’ (kp 18/10/2017), 71pc
of Bajura households below poverty line: Survey; Out of the 21,711
households in the district, 13,619 have been classified as ‘poor’ and
6,393 ‘extreme poor’ within that group (kp 18/10/2017), Multidimensional
poverty index in Dec: The MPI captures severe deprivations that each
person faces with respect to education, health and living standards (kp 18/10/2017), Far from over: Combating poverty with greater determination should be a national priority (kp 20/10/2017)
Against
poverty: Successive governments have been less and less accountable and
more and more extractive, hampering poverty reduction, by Siromani Dhungana (rep 17/10/2017)
Poverty
alleviation spending in Panchthar district encouraging (ht
01/08/2017)
Fighting
poverty: Challenge is to deliver ‘bikas’ at the doorsteps of extremely
poor communities like Chepangs and help transform their lives by
involving them at every level, by Bhagirath Yogi (rep 01/08/2017)
Draft
social security plan for poor families finalised (kp 29/07/2017)
People
living below poverty line to get identity cards (ht 28/07/2017)
Leapfrogging
poverty, by Vidyadhar Mallik (nt 14/07/2017)
Debt
displacing poor households in Bara (ht 20/06/2017)
‘Over
300,000 households
poor in 25 districts’: 18 indicators including ownership of the house,
its structure, types of cooking fuel, water and sanitation facilities,
household size and ethnicity used to calculate poverty level , by
Manish Gautam (kp 16/06/2017)
Nepal
has 20-35 percent working poverty: Report; The report states that Nepal
has unemployment rate of 4 percent. This is equal to the United States
and less than the UK and Germany (rep 17/01/2017) [?]
Poverty
alleviation: Thani seeks more teeth for ministry (kp 17/12/2016)
Poor
Tarai communities hunt rats for food (ht 05/12/2016)
Needs
of the poor: Implement findings; The poor families should be provided
identity cards that will enable them to receive ‘social security
allowance’ and ‘compulsory health insurance’. This allowance can be
used by the poor for total health care, by Vikash Raj Satyal (ht
01/12/2016)
KMC's urban poverty
reduction plans reach nowhere, by Gyanu Sapkota (rep 19/11/2016)
Reduced
poverty: Much neglected; A progressive distributional policy together
with the suitable institutional setups and arrangements at the
grassroots for ensuring exclusively the access of poor to social and
physical infrastructure as well as financial services is also a
necessity, by Dilli Raj Khanal (ht 11/11/2016)
PAF
launches training scheme for urban poor (kp 02/09/2016)
356,418 households
identified as poor in first round survey (rep 29/08/2016)
Poverty-disaster
nexus: It is the poor and marginalised who bear the brunt of the
overall impacts of a calamity, by Suvekshya Gautam (kp 23/08/2016)
Genuinely poor excluded
from poverty list, by Jagat Khadka (rep 16/08/2016)
Bonded poverty, by
Ekal Silwal (rep 13/08/2016)
Food
for thought: Ration card for the poor is a good idea, but it is the
implementation that counts (kp 06/07/2016)
Data
says half of Jajarkot living below poverty line (ht 13/06/2016)
Woe
is us: Nepal is stuck in poverty while the rest of the world has taken
a great leap forward, by Shree Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and
Shreeya Devkota (kp 24/05/2016)
Poverty
increases in quake-hit districts (ht 08/05/2016)
Saptari
Dalit families fear destitution (ht 04/05/2016)
Poverty
and gender: Households headed by females have a lower poverty rate than
those headed by males, by Krishna Kumar Sah (kp 03/05/2016)
Poor
show: Nepal has not been able to make sustained progress in bringing
down the poverty rate, by Nav Raj Simkhada (kp 29/04/2016)
Govt
aims at reducing poverty to below 5pc (kp 01/04/2016)
Poverty
rate alarming: Chitra Bahadur KC (ht 08/02/2016)
Bajura
plagued by telling poverty (ht 14/09/2015)
Urban
poor soar to 15 percent: Survey; The report showed that among the urban
poor too there is a high disparity in their distribution in the cities,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 05/09/2015)
Poverty
deprives Chepang women of basic needs, by Pawan Yadav and Pratap
Bista (kp 23/07/2015)
‘700,000
pushed to poverty’ (kp 14/06/2015)
Government
to conduct recount: The government plans to conduct a recount of poor
households in Gorkha, Tanahu, Sindhuli and Ramechhap citing a possible
increase in the figure after the quake, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
13/06/2015)
The
poor and poorer: Poverty
alleviation programmes and the influx of remittance, are not
eliminating poverty; they are simply creating new kinds of poor, by
Radha Paudel (kp 24/04/2015)
Poverty
falls to 33.1 per cent in six districts (ht 31/03/2015)
Alleviating Poverty,
by S. Shrestha (rn 25/01/2015)
Voice
from slum: Well-to-do people need to realize that slum dwellers also
have rights to basic facilities including right to survive in city,
by Nirjana Sharma (rep 13/10/2014)
Number
of urban poor hits 7 million (kp 12/09/2014)
Poverty
rate goes up in far-west (ht 10/09/2014)
Social
security schemes: Poor identity cards will ‘help maintain transparency’
(kp 04/07/2014)
Poor
by definition: Policy initiatives for reducing poverty need a
multidimensional approach, not just monetary parameters, by Sagun
S. Lawoti (kp 18/12/2013)
Poor
household survey in Dolpa completed (ht 01/11/2013)
Govt
plans to start 2nd phase from Nov end (kp 25/10/2013)
Poverty
reduction still a big challenge for govt (ht 19/10/2013)
Urban
poor being neglected: Experts (kp 08/10/2013)
Poverty
As A Human Rights Issue, by Madhab Regmi (rn 13/09/2013)
Due
Recognition: After
the implementation of the Poverty Reduction of Informal workers in
Solid waste Management sector (PRISM) by Practical Action, informal
workers in waste collection have found some recognition and new identity,
by Lal Nara Dadci (sp 07/09/2013)
Poverty
and food insecurity: Issues that need attention, by Khem Raj Sharma
(ht 13/08/2013)
Identification
of poor households begins (ht 19/05/2013), First
phase of poor household survey over (ht 05/08/2013)
Poverty
identity card distribution: Ministry to resume work from Tuesday
(kp 26/04/2013)
Nepal
made fastest progress in reducing poverty: Oxford study (kp
19/03/2013)
Story
of poverty: Poverty reduction is welcome news but how it has been
achieved doesn’t leave room for optimism, by Dhiraj Sharma Nyaupane
(kp 04/03/2013)
Govt
to list poor in Gorkha to issue poverty ID cards (kp 15/01/2013)
Identifying
the poor: Dark
side of the proposed poverty certificate scheme is uglier than the
mainstream intellectuals, experts and policy-makers have imagined,
by Lok Nath Bhusal (kp 08/11/2012)
Still
poor: Insecure land ownership is the major cause of poverty, social
injustice and conflict in Nepal, by Jagat Basnet (kp 18/10/2012)
Poverty
ID cards to be issued from Sept 17 (kp 12/09/2012), Poverty
ID Card Distribution: Groundwork for first phase to begin today, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 17/09/2012)
Insurance
for poor in offing Final version of regulation ready (ht 05/07/2012)
Intolerable
poverty: Ignoring economic injustice carries political risks (kp
21/03/2012), Identification
of poor soon: PAF (ht 21/03/2012)
Nepal
third poorest in S Asia, by Kuvera Chalise (ht 09/03/2012)
Poverty
reduction through foreign employment: Is it really sustainable?, by
Kamal Raj Dhungel (kp 02/02/2012)
Poverty
up in far-west region (ht 24/01/2012)
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