-The Business Standard Contrary to earlier claims, farm Growth may be robust The projection by the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) of robust agricultural Growth of above five per cent and a consequential handsome rise in rural incomes comes as a silver lining to India's otherwise gloomy economic scene. The CACP's reckoning, based on a rigorous mathematical model, virtually discounts the agriculture ministry's kharif crop output estimates (called first advance...
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Roads and mobile phones have taken India's Growth to Bharat-Neelkanth Mishra
-The Economic Times Sometimes, putting one and one together does make 11, but many of us seem hardwired in our thoughts to assume rural income Growth is a zero-sum game. For example, some people believe subsidies have driven the 15-20 per cent a-year Growth in rural wages over the last five years. They come up with "explanations", including "people are selling land and consuming", "rising minimum support prices", and "NREGA is...
More »Policymakers fret as condom use drops 40% in 5 years -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a worrying trend, condom use in India has dropped by 38% in six years - from 2.6 crore in 2006-07 to 1.6 crore in 2010-11. Health ministry data shows that 21 of the 28 states, including Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have registered a decline in the use of this contraceptive, setting off alarms among policymakers. Health experts said with India's population is tipped to...
More »Migrants contributors, not burden on cities: UN report
-IANS NEW DELHI: Breaking the myth that internal migration is burdening the cities, a new study says migrants are in fact contributing largely to the gross domestic product (GDP) and proving to be a subsidy. A Unesco report on social inclusion of internal migrants in India released on Thursday says migrants are looked upon as "outsiders" and considered a burden, but the fact is that internal migrants contribute cheap labour for manufacturing...
More »Japan may import rice bran oil from India, to improve fiscal numbers -Sutanuka Ghosal
-The Economic Times KOLKATA: There is some good news for the UPA government, which is trying hard to tackle the rising import bill. Japan has shown interest in buying rice bran oil from India - a country that depends on import of edible oil for meeting nearly 60 per cent of its domestic consumption. Export of rice bran oil will help India earn foreign exchange, thus reducing the rising import bill...
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