Consumption Patterns
Feature Articles
Global trade grows, so do imbalances
Global goods trade in the first half of 2010 was about 25 percent higher than the same period of the year before, and the value of worldwide merchandise trade grew during the second quarter, according to new data from the WTO secretariat. But the volume of global trade remains well below the peaks reached in mid-2008 before the global financial and economic crisis.
Sep 2010
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
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News
Green prosperity, anyone?
IN THE second decade of the 21st century, the environment has found an irredeemable place in the international economic discourse. It was not always like this.
06/09/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
News
Global cereal consumption to surpass output this season: FAO
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 2, 2010, 0:41 IST
Global cereal consumption is set to surpass production for the first time in three years due to the impact of the periodic climatic behaviour known as El Nino, which brought floods in one part of the world and drought on another.
Data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations show world cereal output w
02/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Need to control population: Chouhan
Express news service
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has reiterated the need to control population even as choosing not to support efforts made during Emergency to achieve the objective.
Speaking at a function in Bhopal on Sunday, Chouhan had lauded the efforts made by Sanjay Gandhi during Emergency for population control.
31/08/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Asia's middle class will help rebalance economy: ADB
Asia’s rapidly rising middle class, led by India and China, would be the key to rebalance the global economy, making it more consumption-driven rather than relying heavily on external demand.
20/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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India's middle class drives consumption, growth: ADB
NEW DELHI: Even as innovative and cheaply priced products targeted at India's booming middle class are helping to spur domestic consumption and growth, this segment of the population remains vulnerable to economic shocks and carefully calibrated policy measures will be needed to sustain income gains in the longer-term, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said.
In a special chapter of ‘Key indi
20/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Feature Articles
The century ahead: Searching for sustainability
The global future lies before us as a highly uncertain and contested landscape with numerous perils along the way. This study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the twenty-first century.
Aug 2010
Sustainability
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Reports and Documents
Discussion in Rajya Sabha on poverty (19/08/2010)
Discussion in Rajya Sabha on poverty.
Aug 2010
Rajya Sabha
News
Electric consumption on street lights to come down by 30pc
Efforts are being made to reduce electricity consumption considerably on street lights in urban areas. Jabalpur Municipal Corporation is doing commendable job in this direction. In Jabalpur a most modern electric appliance called Mudra Electromizer is being installed in the area of every feeder. This is expected to reduce the electric consumption on street lights up to 30 per cent.
10/08/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Reports and Documents
Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2010
Developing Asia's rapidly expanding middle class is likely to assume the traditional role of the US and Europe as primary global consumers and help rebalance the global economy, says a report on Asia’s middle class from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Aug 2010
Asian Development Bank
