-TheWire.in In its latest report 'Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting the Course', the World Bank flagged concerns over how the lack of official data on poverty from India affects the world in drawing up global poverty estimates. New Delhi: A study by the World Bank has concluded that nearly 80% of people who slipped into poverty in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic hailed from India. Out of 7 crore people...
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CNG, piped cooking gas prices hiked by Rs 3
-PTI/ The Telegraph This is the 14th INCrease in price sINCe March 7 The prices of CNG and cooking gas piped to household kitchens in the national capital on Saturday hiked by Rs 3 each in step with rise in input natural gas prices. The Rs 3 per kg INCrease in CNG price is the first hike in rates in over four months, while a Rs 3 per standard cubic metres INCrease in...
More »Through a rosy lens -Anup Sinha
-The Telegraph The airbrushing of the Indian economy is damaging The latest Monthly Economic Review from the ministry of finance gives the reader a great deal of comfort by indicating that all is well with the Indian economy. If there is any cause for concern at all, it is from external economic and political shocks: events like the Federal Reserve in the United States of America raising interest rates, or Russia invading...
More »High cost of cattle feed: Milk cooperatives face strain in supply chain -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu No plan to INCrease price of milk as of now, say federations As the festival season has started, milk cooperative federations are witnessing a strain in the supply chain as the production has witnessed a marginal decrease primarily due to the INCrease in fodder cost. The organised sector is witnessing a decrease in procurement and the federations expect the situation will be normal after Deepavali. Farmers, however, demanded an INCrease...
More »How well did the women workers fare during the pandemic years? The yearly PLFS reports provide some mixed answers.
Do you want a job that does not pay you at all? The answer will be surely 'no' for most of us. And yet, in our previous analysis, it was found that the proportion of 'helpers in household enterprises' among the total number of workers grew over various rounds of annual PLFS (Periodic Labour Force Survey), from 13.3 percent to 15.9 percent between PLFS 2018-19 and PLFS 2019-20, and then...
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