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As the Asian Development Bank’s 46th Annual Governors’ meeting unfolds today in Noida, India, the Asia Pacific Research Network challenged the ADB to abandon its anti-people and market-centric development framework that has led to massive disempowerment and impoverishment of the people.

India’s planners worry about ‘jobless growth’, but perhaps nothing illustrates this phenomenon better than a policy of handing over the collection and disposal of the capital’s refuse to large private corporations, leaving close to 50,000 ragpickers unemployed.

KARACHI: Civil society organisations termed the minorities’ representation in upcoming general elections as inappropriate, further alleging that the reserved seats for minorities are being sold out at hefty prices to affluent individuals.

Gain free access to 40 classic articles in The Journal of Peasant Studies The Journal of Peasant Studies is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and, as part of the anniversary celebrations, we have created the virtual special issue: 40 Classics in Peasant Studies. This collection highlights some of the key articles that have been published in the journal over the past four decades. These articles are available for free until the end of 2013. Simply register with us for free, or if (…)

It now seems increasingly unlikely that Parliament will consider the National Food Security Bill during this budget session. In a land which for centuries suffered devastating famines, where chronic hunger continues to stalk more than 200 million people, and which is home to every third malnourished child on the planet, this would be one more sad betrayal of the country’s indigent millions, a reminder of how little they count.