-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The UPA is ready with facts and figures to counter Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's growth model when he comes to the Planning Commission to discuss the state's annual plan for 2013-14 on Tuesday. The UPA attack is expected to focus around claims that Modi's growth model is not inclusive as revealed by social indicators. This will be Modi's first official meeting at the Centre after his...
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A case of misplaced euphoria -Vani S Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu In spite of the rosy picture painted by the World Bank, the prospect of eliminating extreme poverty remains distant In a protracted period of gloom and persistent recession with feeble signs of recovery in a large part of the developed world, the World Bank, Brookings Institution and others can be forgiven for their euphoria over the accomplishment of a key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) - of halving extreme poverty in...
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-The Hindu India's paradox of fast economic growth across several years and chronic malnutrition in a significant section of the population is well known. It has vast numbers of stunted children whose nutritional status is so poor that infectious diseases increase the danger of death. About 34 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 are stunted in the country, according to a major review of global undernutrition by The Lancet....
More »Stunting a country
-The Hindu India's paradox of fast economic growth across several years and chronic malnutrition in a significant section of the population is well known. It has vast numbers of stunted children whose nutritional status is so poor that infectious diseases increase the danger of death. About 34 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 are stunted in the country, according to a major review of global undernutrition by The...
More »Plan panel punctures Modi’s growth model -Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times Though BJP's new poll mascot Narendra Modi's selling of the Gujarat growth model for India looks fine in diatribe, it is not equitable and is tilted in favour of the rich. And this may be the Planning Commission's message to Modi when he visits Yojana Bhawan on June 18 to finalise Gujarat's annual plan for 2013-14. The panel's latest socio-economic data gives an insight into the truth of what...
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