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From: ProPoor.org <ne...@propoor.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:02 AM
Subject: Newsletter -- August 4, 2011
To: raju...@gmail.com
ProPoor.org Newsletter (August 4, 2011)Below are the development news stories from South Asia, featured 'sign of light' and latest updates from the ProPoor community ... | |
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| Indian Poor Prefer Food to Cash Transfers An efficient Public Distribution System (PDS) is better than cash transfers to ensure food security, reveals a new survey conducted across 1,227 poor rural households in India. |
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| Gujarat's Cotton Farmers Make Fuel from Crop waste A local energy company has found a novel way to turn the cotton leftovers into small pellets which are then sold as a cheap replacement for coal. |
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| Indian Tiger Population Up by Twenty Percent The estimated population of 1, 706 individual tigers represents a 20 per cent increase from the last survey in 2006, which estimated a number of 1,411 tigers. The increase is based on the survey of ad ... |
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| Archaeologist K R Srinivasan: A Tribute It is the birth centenary of noted Indian archaeologist K R Srinivasan who uncovered many secrets of the Mamallapuram cave temples and Thanjavur Big Temple. |
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| Read more news stories >> | |
| Signs of Light: | Eko:Mobile Banking for the Poor Eko has made it possible for everyone to start using financial services that were earlier accessible only to the wealthy. |
| Read more 'good news' stories >> | |
| Blog News: | |
| NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2012 | |
| Looking to recruit Program Officer: Energy Efficiency, Shakti: India Sustainable Energy Foundation for Delhi | |
| Looking to recruit Executive Director, Delhi for VSO India | |
| Application deadline for NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2012 | |
| Three month Certificate courses in Participatory Research, Monotoring and Evaluation and Occupational Health and Safety, Oct - Dec 2011 | |
| Good News! Important Updates to the Microsoft Donation Program through BiGTech | |
| Deputy Regional Director for Room to Read | |
| To learn about new NGOs and other stories added this week, read more on the ProPoor Blog >> | |
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Please contact us if you'd like to add an NGO to the ProPoor database or if you have any announcements or stories that might be of interest to the ProPoor South Asian development community. | |
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