Although a normal monsoon has been forecast for South Asia this year, and rains have begun normally in many parts of the region, people are still anxious about the rainy season that lasts for four months. Their anxiety has to do with the uncertainties surrounding the timing of the monsoon in recent years. While the debate continues over the role of climate change, scientists have also been looking at the possible role...
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Income gap rises in India: NSSO by Asit Ranjan Mishra
Despite the much-hyped rural Consumption boom and all the social sector programmes of the government, the income inequality between the rural and urban consumer widened to 91% in the first five years of the United Progressive Alliance coming to power in 2004. According to the 66th round of the household Consumption expenditure survey released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on Friday, the per capita expenditure level of the urban...
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-The Business Standard Indian economy has been on a sustained growth path, but Indians are still spending a major chunk of their expenditure on food items. Per capita Consumption expenditure in a month was 88 per cent more in case of urban India compared to rural India during 2009-10, a trend which was more or less five years ago, according to the latest figures on Consumption expenditure. Per capita expenditure on Consumption for...
More »City’s poor dwellers are no richer than village counterparts -ENS Economic Bureau
There’s not much difference between the spending patterns of the urban and rural poor but the city-village divide becomes much wider amongst the rich in each class. These are some of the key findings of the National Sample Survey Organisation’s (NSSO) 66th round of survey on household Consumption expenditure. The survey, which was carried out between July, 2009 and June, 2010 has revealed that the poorest 10 per cent of India’s...
More »More and more countries using graphic anti-smoking labelling, UN reports
-The United Nations About a billion people, if they wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes, are facing some pretty off-putting and sometimes gruesome graphics on the package cover, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, marking the success of its warning campaign. In its third annual report on the global tobacco epidemic, launched today in Montevideo, Uruguay, the agency said more than one billion people in 19 countries...
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