-TheWire.in Employment trends are dismal under the 'double engine government' of Modi and Adityanath. Several claims made in ads do not appear to hold up. Uttar Pradesh’s per capita income was barely half (Rs 41,023) of India’s average (Rs 86,659) in 2019-20. The per capita income of UP (at 2011-12 prices) is ranked 32 out of 36 states and Union Territories. That the state’s economy has been one of the poorly performing...
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Health account numbers that require closer scrutiny -Indranil
-The Hindu The reduction of out-of-pocket expenditure that the NHA highlights is essentially due to a decline in utilisation of care Low public spending on health in India has meant that people depend heavily on their own means to access health care. It causes rich-poor, rural-urban, gender and caste-based divides in access to health care, pushes people to poverty, and forces them to incur debt or sell assets. As a result, our...
More »Meeting the IMF, RBI forecast of 9.5% GDP growth this year now a challenge, says Dr Rangarajan -E Kumar Sharma
-Financial Express Dr Rangarajan feels that perhaps we may end the year with GDP growth in the region of 7 or 8 per cent. The much awaited news on the second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers showing a growth of 8.4 percent as compared to 7.4 percent contraction in Q2 2020-21, has come as a dampner. Economists now see serious challenges in India being able to hit the full year GDP...
More »Pronab Sen, Programme Director for the IGC India Programme and first Chief Statistician of India, interviewed by Vikas Dhoot (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The ill-prepared move left India with all the damages and very few of the benefits On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that from midnight, ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes would no longer be considered legal tender in India. The government’s stated aim was to curb corruption and the pervasion of black money in the economy, as well as the proliferation of fake currency which was also being used...
More »Q1 GDP: Trade, hotel and transport segment clocks 34.3% growth in Q1 -Shreeja Singh
-Moneycontrol.com The sector entered the positive terrain after declining for four quarters in 2020-21. Trade, hotel, transport, communication and services related to broadcasting reported a growth in the first quarter of FY22 as per the data released by National Statistical Office (NSO). Trade, hotel, transport, communication & services related to broadcasting clocked a growth of 34.3 percent in the April-June quarter. Please click here to read more. Kindly click here to access the press note...
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