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A policy for the price control of certain medicines was approved by India's cabinet this week. The goal is to make medicine more affordable than it already is to the poor (producers argue that there is already sufficient competition in the market to keep prices low).

This article talks about how the Indian government is imposing price control on certain drugs to. The government claims that its is doing this to make it more affordable for the poor. They say this will also help patients become aware of less costly alternatives to some drugs.

This article is about the fact that, despite the best efforts of the Indian governments with welfare initiatives, the tribal communities throughout india are still struggling to develop. The HDI indicators within these communities are still poor.

The article talks about the living conditions of Indian people in rural areas. Their living conditions have not improved yet and there is a lot of work to do for the government.

In this article it talks about the poor economy in Indonesia and the little income some of its citizens have. Due to so little income some people cannot buy proper food for their families resulting in malnutrition. This is a huge problem for the economy as it cannot get back on its feet if people do not spend money, but if there is no money to spend then what can one do?

This article tells us that because the prices of foods as increased, there is poverty and malnutrition is countries like Indonesia. Two different types of surveys was taken in Indonesia before 1996 and immediately after the economics crisis in 1999. The result was that some food nutrients like iron and calcium was more than usual during the crisis years and and food nutrient like Vit C was almost nothing.

"Burma, also known as Myanmar, has been implementing economic and political reforms, resulting in various sanctions against it being lifted." The Asian Development Bank has approved loans for Burma after sanctions had been put on them.

This article elaborates on the fact that Burma is in dept and it's been not recognized for loans. Burma is on of the poorest countries in Asia and it suffers highly under the it.

This article for me was the perfect example to show how the human needs have trouble coexisting with the finite amount of resources present. Fred Neumann, co-head of Asian economic research at HSBC Holdings said, "Countries such as China have seen droughts over many years. Now we see other parts of the world facing some water shortages, which is starting to impact the global price of certain goods."In this article it basically states the fact that some areas are running low on water and simply cannot keep up with the growing demand for food. Thus instead of having a balance the price of food increased at an alarming rate.