Rural development course

IDFC's jaundiced Rural Development Report
IBNLive (blog)
Last week (26 September), the IDFC released its rural development report. Planning Commission member Mihir Shah, who chaired the report's advisory council lauded Rural Development Minister for seeking an "objective, high quality assessment" of overall …

Chinese Farmers, American Farms
New Yorker (blog)
The company also began raising pigs for the medical industry, to be used for testing and developing drugs, and for regenerating human body parts such as lost fingertips. Lemmon ticked off the ways in which swine help mankind: they end up in food …