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Monday, 3 March 2008
India to pay poor families to bring up girls
The Indian government today announced a scheme to pay poor families to give birth to and bring up girls in an attempt to stop families nationwide aborting an estimated half a million female foetuses a year.
Families in seven states are set to benefit from cash payments amounting to 15,500 rupees (£193) to keep and bring up their female children.
India to pay poor families to bring up girls | World news | guardian.co.uk
Poverty 'blights 1m rural homes'
Almost one million households in rural England live in poverty, a study says.The report, by the government's rural advocate, Stuart Burgess, says many people living and working in the countryside have prosperous lifestyles.
VIDEO CLIP Problems facing people in rural areas
PDF of report "Tackling Rural disadvantage"
LINK to The problem with rural Britain
BBC NEWS England Poverty 'blights 1m rural homes'
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