-Deccan Herald Dodgy data Surjit Bhalla, India’s Executive Director (IMF), Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Advisor under UPA, and K Bhasin, in an IMF Working Paper, state that to estimate poverty, when no survey has been undertaken, is to take the most recent survey (2011-12) Data and update individual consumption (or personal) income by the corresponding growth rate observed in the national accounts (NAS). However, there are problems with estimating poverty based on...
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Inadequacies of the Civil Registration System -K Narayanan Unni
-The Hindu Facts do not support the argument that India has a robust system of registering births and deaths The World Health Organization (WHO)’s estimate of excess deaths due to COVID-19 in India triggered several responses. Among them was the response of several State Health Ministers, who slammed the WHO and asserted that India has a “robust, legal and transparent system for Data collection and COVID mortality surveillance”. This new-found love for the...
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-Hindustan Times In the first of a five-part Data journalism series based on National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) data, HT's Data and political economy team finds that India's inequality problem is far sharper than what is made out by the data The fifth round of the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS), conducted between June 2019 and May 2021 was among the biggest in India. It was conducted in all of...
More »World lost 11.2 crore jobs in the first quarter of 2022: ILO -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Gender gap in India’s employment Data finds mention in the report on the ‘world of work’ The "world of work" is being buffeted by multiple crises, says the ninth edition of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Monitor. The report says that after significant gains during the last quarter of 2021, the number of hours worked globally dropped in the first quarter of 2022, to 3.8% below the employment situation before...
More »MSME loans back on track in FY22 -G Naga Sridhar
-The Hindu Business Line Micro and small loans as on March 2022 grew by 21.5 per cent to ₹4,95,281 crore from ₹4,07,675 crore as on March 2021 The advances to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are growing at a good pace, as banks are turning liberal in sanctioning loans. The Data pertaining to the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2022 as well FY22 show increase in MSME advances compared to previous year,...
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