One of the most disappointing features of the Ninth Plan was the declaration in agricultural growth, which set in after the mid 1990's with GDP in agricultural growing at only around 2 per cent per annum after growing at 3.6 per cent per annum 6th 1980 and 1996.Reserving these declaration to...

Common sense perception of the issue is that child labour is the outcome of poverty. There are also arguments that child labour reinforces poverty. While it is true that most of the working children are drawn from the poorer segments of the population, there is also other demographic factor...