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1. With an estimated 1.03 billion citizens, of whom 260 million live in poverty, India is home to the majority of poor people in Southern Asia [1] | ||
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2. India has the largest number of working children in the world, with nearly a third of children below 16 working [2] | ||
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3. In the coming decade, an additional 8 million young people will enter India's labour force every year in search of employment [3] | ||
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4. Additionally, the lack of training programmes for women has become a factor contributing to women's continued disadvantage [4,5] | ||
[1] World Development Indicator Database, April 2003 [2] Estimates from ECPAT [3] Proposals for Vocational Training, Mothers Service Society, Pondicherry, India March, 2002. [4] Disability World Report, March 2001 [5] Chandigarh Tribune, March 2002 | ||
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