Deutsche Welle/The Telegraph El Nino, a natural climate phenomenon that alters global weather patterns, has officially returned after four years, threatening to exacerbate already elevated food inflation. Growing warnings about El Nino have already helped coffee, sugar and cocoa prices to rise sharply in recent weeks, Germany's biggest private lender, Deutsche Bank, said in a research note last week. Other food commodities are expected to follow as harvests get impacted by severe...
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Health among top three priorities for Indian voters after jobs and education, survey shows - Oliver Heath, Jyoti Mishra, Louise Tillin & Sandhya Venkateswaran
Scroll.in In a recent survey conducted by Lokniti-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in partnership with the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, King’s India Institute and Royal Holloway, University of London, we set out to examine in greater depth how Indian citizens view health. This five-state survey is the first systematic interrogation of electoral perceptions around health in India. Between March-April 2022, we interviewed 1,500 voters across five Indian states...
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The high dropout rates in schools in several states, including Karnataka, during 2020-21, as revealed by data from the Ministry of Education, is a matter of concern when the education sector is considered to be recovering from the damage caused by the damage caused by the Covid pandemic. Karnataka, with a dropout rate of 14.6%, is in the company of states like Bihar and Gujarat, which had dropout rates higher...
More »New consumption survey to track online expenses in bid to capture real economic picture - Ishaan Gera
Economic Times Call it the next-gen consumption survey. The ongoing government consumption survey is going beyond asking what you eat, what you wear, and what you own; it also wants to know your OTT subscription spend, the time you spend online, how often you shop online, whether you order meals from Zomato or Swiggy, and if you own an electric vehicle. India's Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) will now include questions on...
More »India’s Trigger-Happy Internet Shutdowns Hurt its Poor and Marginalised - Anirudh S.K.
The Wire “When the internet is shut down, I have no work, do not get paid, cannot withdraw any money from my account and cannot even get food rations.” This statement by a Dalit woman daily wage worker from Rajasthan begins a joint report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) scrutinising India’s record as the world’s internet shutdown capital. In No Internet Means No Work, No Pay,...
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