-The Telegraph The report examined each of the 184 voluntary pledges under the Paris climate pact Nearly three-quarters of the climate pledges from 184 countries under the 2015 Paris climate pact are insufficient to adequately lower Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions and cap global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, researchers iterated on Tuesday. India, China and the US are among the 136 countries (74 per cent) whose pledges to curb their emissions...
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Explained: Why is India's labour productivity Growth faltering? -Udit Misra
-The Indian Express India’s labour productivity between 2016 and 2018 grew by just 3.7 per cent — a far cry from the annual Growth of 14 per cent between 2004 and 2008 An analysis done by India Ratings and Research of Annual Survey of Industries data on India’s labour productivity Growth in the organised manufacturing sector shows a disappointing trend. During the high economic Growth phase between 2004 and 2008 (just before...
More »Civil society group welcomes failure to sign RCEP; calls it 'bad deal for democracy' -Joe C Mathew
-Business Today RCEP trade deal: The group said that the Indian govt should not agree to the RCEP even in future as it will be a 'bad deal for democracy, for farmers, workers, will subvert our sovereign laws and compromise India's industrialisation potential'. Forum for Trade Justice, a pan-civil society network has welcomed the failure of the 16 negotiating countries to reach a consensus over the conclusion of the world's largest free...
More »India needs a more informed debate, better policy design to address population Growth -C Rangarajan & JK Satia
-The Indian Express The UN Population Division estimates that the medium fertility variant, the most likely scenario, will result in a peak population of 165 crore in the year 2061 and a decline thereafter. The mention of a population explosion by the prime minister in his Independence Day speech has rekindled debate on population Growth and family planning. The responses have varied. Some have called for a law to limit family...
More »India's Growth is in barely positive territory: US think tank
-PTI As against India's real Growth rate of 6.8 per cent in 2018, the IMF in its latest World Economic Outlook projected the country's Growth rate at 6.1 per cent for 2019. WASHINGTON: India's Growth is in barely positive territory, a top American think tank has said, noting that several key indicators are not just slowing down, but in absolute decline. In a study, two scholars from the Centre for Global Development (CGD)...
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