The results of the District Level Household and Facility Survey-4 for the year 2012-13, commonly known as DLHS-4, are out and it shows that among the 18 states and 3 UTs, the percentage of moderate wasting for children below 5 years is highest among Maharashtra (i.e. 34.1%). Similarly, in case of severe wasting and moderate underweight, the situation is worst in Maharashtra as compared to the rest (Please check the...
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Higher productivity equals higher wages? Not for the Indian industrial worker -Prabhat Singh
-Livemint.com Real wages have grown at an average 1% annually between 1983 and 2013 Industrial workers on the shop floor have got a raw deal through the economic boom of the past three decades. Their real wages have grown far less than the growth in productivity. That flies in the face of the traditional economic assumption that the two move in tandem. The share of wages in the net value added by...
More »Obama visit: civil society appeals to Modi not to succumb to US pressure on IP laws -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth US actions jeopardise India's pro-poor patent laws that promote generic drugs production, says online global petition More than 75,000 people have requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to succumb to US pressure on Intellectual Property Rights (IP). With trade and intellectual property rights featuring prominently in the agenda of US president Barak Obama's India visit, civil society groups have expressed concern that talks on these issues are designed to make...
More »UN study predicts rising global unemployment due to slower growth, inequality, turbulence
-The United Nations An extra 10 million people worldwide are likely to be unemployed by 2019, a new United Nations report has said today, pointing to slower growth, widening inequalities and economic turbulence as reasons behind the trend. According to the World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015 (WESO) report, released today by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the next four years will see the total number of people out of...
More »Don’t scrap rural jobs scheme: ILO -D Ravi Kanth
-Livemint.com ILO chief Guy Ryder says India needs to continue strong ‘social policies' such as the MGNREGS to give ‘guaranteed' days of employment to the rural poor As the number of jobless globally crosses 204 million amid slow Economic Growth and widening inequalities, India needs to continue strong "social policies" such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to provide "guaranteed" days of employment to the rural poor, the...
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