-The United Nations The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has announced its involvement in an international partnership to improve civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in the Asia-Pacific region. Shun-ichi Murata, ESCAP Deputy Executive Secretary, haiLED the partnership, announced in New York yesterday at an event that included former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the city's former Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who...
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Mission 'achche din': Drag in farm sector can delay economic recovery -Gaurav Choudhury and Zia Haq
-The Hindustan Times Even with the prospects of a year of high growth and low prices, a clutch of disquieting data on the ground suggests that things are still tough, potentially testing the Narendra Modi-LED government's ability to pull the economy up. Output in factories has fallen sharply and a depressing farm season this winter, along with a fall in rural wages, could prolong recovery. Simply put, the drag this time...
More »Why no ‘Make in India’ for urea? -Sandip Sen
-The Hindu Business Line The closure of three urea producing plants in south India has LED to a sharp spike in imports and subsidies In April 2014, the UPA government in its last days, cut off the lifeline of three urea plants. It gave a final push to a ten-year-old trend of replacing domestic urea production with imports. The government-owned Madras Fertilisers, and the private sector units SPIC and MCF closed down...
More »Pranab Bardhan, emeritus professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley interviewed by Pramit Bhattacharya
-Livemint The development economist on the Modi government's initiatives and his stand on them, and MGNREGS The Narendra Modi-LED government should consider replacing inefficient subsidies with a basic monthly income for all citizens, says Pranab Bardhan , emeritus professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Bardhan, who recently sparred with economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya in a debate over the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS),...
More »Call for ‘mission mode’ to tackle arsenic contamination
-The Hindu Expressing serious concern over the extent of arsenic contamination in groundwater that has affected nearly 70 million people in 86 districts across 10 States, a Parliamentary panel LED by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has favoured "mission mode'' approach by the Centre to deal with the problem. Dr. Joshi tabLED the first report of the Committee on Estimates on ‘Occurrence of High Arsenic Content in Ground Water' in...
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