-Down to Earth This is a considerable improvement from the 130 deaths per lakh in 2014-2016 India has improved its maternal mortality RATio (MMR) — number of deaths per 100,000 live births — to 97 deaths per lakh in 2018-2020 from 103 deaths per lakh in 2017-2019. This is a considerable improvement from the 130 deaths per lakh in 2014-2016, the latest data released by the office of the Registrar General of...
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India's Economy Grows 6.3% In September Quarter
-PTI/ NDTV.com The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 8.4 per cent in the July-September quarter of 2021-22, according to data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). New Delhi: India's economy grew 6.3 per cent in the July-September quarter, down from 13.5 per cent in the previous quarter, according to the official data released today. The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 8.4 per cent in the July-September quarter of...
More »Is India on track in reducing TB incidence and deaths?
Like the fight against poverty and hunger, the progress made by mankind against tuberculosis (TB) in the years up to 2019 has either slowed, stalled, or reversed, and global TB targets are off track due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, although the reported number of people newly diagnosed with TB decreased from 7.1 million to 5.8 million between 2019 and 2020, the number went up to 6.4 million in 2021....
More »Urban unemployment improved to best level in July-September -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times Data also suggests that at least some of the improvement could be because of an increase in poor-quality jobs, a trend seen regularly since the Covid-19 pandemic India’s headline urban unemployment RATe reached its lowest-ever level in the quarter ending September 2022, according to the quarterly bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on November 24. However, the bulletin’s data also suggests...
More »Subjective indices mar World Bank’s Governance Indicators: EAC-PM Paper -Rajeev Jayaswal
-Hindustan Times The World Bank should ensure “greater transparency and accountability” while factoring in subjective opinion-based indices as inputs for its World Governance Indicators (WGI) that has significant weightage in sovereign RATings, the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) said in a series of tweets citing an internal working paper, and called for independent Indian think tanks to bring out similar perception-based indices for the world in order to...
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