-The Hindu With improved revenues, government must increase expenditures to push Consumption and investment India’s GDP data for Q1 of 2021-22 was released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on August 31, 2021. Real GDP growth at 20.1% in Q1 of 2021-22 is largely because of the contraction of 24.4% in the corresponding quarter of the first COVID-19 year, that is, 2020-21. Even with this high growth, the magnitude of real GDP...
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What Impacts Child Malnutrition in India and Why We Need to Be Aware of These Factors -Payal Seth and Palakh Jain
-TheWire.in India loses 4% of its GDP annually due to malnourishment and hence, the objective of economic development cannot be met without addressing the issue of child malnutrition. India has achieved remarkable levels of economic growth, and yet, despite all the progress, it continues to host the highest number of malnourished children in the world. Child malnutrition is classified as ‘undernutrition’ (inadequate Consumption of calories) and ‘overnutrition’ (excess Consumption of calories). Of these,...
More »‘Where is the development, where are the services?’: Patricia Mukhim -Sanjoy Hazarika
-The Hindu A troubled Meghalaya will see unrest growing until 2023, when the next elections are due, says the editor of ‘The Shillong Times’, Patricia Mukhim On August 13, an ailing former leader of an armed group was shot dead in the middle of the night at his home in Shillong by a police team. The incident led to unrest in Mawlai where the encounter occurred and resonated in the adjoining neighbourhoods...
More »Poverty in India is on the rise again -Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati Keshari Parida
-The Hindu In the absence of CES data, the Periodic Labour Force Survey shows a rise in the absolute number of the poor India has not released its Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) data since 2011-12. Normally a CES is conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSO) every five years. But the CES of 2017-18 (already conducted a year late) was not made public by the Government of India. Now, we hear...
More »A disconcerting picture behind the headline numbers -Ishan Anand
-The Hindu There is evidence to suggest that the PLFS data may underestimate the loss of earnings and fall in Consumption The third annual round of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data conducted during July 2019-June 2020 was released recently. The PLFS captures key indicators of the labour market such as the labour force participation rate (LFPR) — the proportion of population working or seeking work; worker-population ratio (WPR) — the...
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