-Newsclick.in The Biden administration is realising this. The need of the hour, therefore, is to build a post-pandemic growth strategy centred on an increase in public investment and public spending. The period of neo-liberalism witnesses an increase in the share of economic surplus in total output both in individual countries and also for the world as a whole. This is because the “opening” up of the economy to freer trade in goods...
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The recent QES estimates are unreliable -R Nagaraj and Radhicka Kapoor
-The Hindu The analysis is fraught with caveats and the interpretation of the survey results calls for caution Last week, the Ministry of Labour and Employment released the results of a new Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for April-June 2021 for the organised (formal) sector. It represents establishments (or units) employing ten or more workers. The surveyed sectors were manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation and restaurant, Information Technology/Business Process Outsourcing (IT/BPO),...
More »31 Muslims (4.07%) out of 761 successful UPSC candidates
-MuslimMirror.com New Delhi: 31 Muslim students have cleared Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020. Sadaf Choudhary who ranked 23, has secured the highest rank among Muslim candidates. They constitute 4.07 per cent out of the total 761 successful candidates. The number of successful Muslim candidates has reduced this year in comparison to last year as a total of 42 had cleared the civil services exam in the 2019 batch. Shubham Kumar, an IIT Bombay...
More »From Remote Villages to Metro Cities, Scheme Workers Strike Work for Regularisation of Services -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Led by the Joint Platform of Scheme Workers Federations, ASHAs, along with workers engaged in anganwadis, mid-day meal scheme and National Health Mission also demanded a legislation on ‘right to universal healthcare’. New Delhi: Pushed to the brink after their jobs remained non-regularised since many years now, nearly one crore government-sponsored scheme workers staged a one-day strike on Friday, in what was termed as a “warning” action by the federations in...
More »Southern states had a higher proportion of indebted farm households in 2019, shows NSO survey
The Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round), which was released recently, informs one about farm households' income in the crop year 2018-19 and indebtedness in 2019 (as on the date of survey), among other things. Prior to the recent report, Land and Livestock Holding Surveys (LHS) and Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households used to be...
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