The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
According to this 2012-2013 economic survey of Delhi released by the government air and water pollution in the national capital show an alarming increase in recent years. It also revealed some other interesting facts on transport, housing and environment. The 2012-2013 economic survey of Delhi which was tabled in the …
The rise of the South is radically reshaping the world of the 21st century, with developing nations driving economic growth, lifting hundreds of millions of people from poverty, and propelling billions more into a new global middle class, says this latest edition of UNDP's Human Development Report. This phenomenon goes …
Presenting his last budget before the assembly elections later this year, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday doled out sops for farmers, elderly, journalists, employees. He extended the free medicines scheme, promised free health check-up at state hospitals, free laptops for journalists, and Rs 5 incentive for inter-caste marriages. Gehlot …
The Statistical Abstract of Punjab is published annually by the Economic & Statistical Organisation. It contains the latest available data on important socioeconomic indicators of the State’s economy. Every year, it is presented in the Legislative Assembly along with other budget documents.
As the State had performed appreciably along various fiscal parameters amid a slowdown at the national level, Haryana Finance Minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha did not levy any fresh taxes while presenting the Budget for 2013-14 in the Assembly on Friday. To achieve the objective of “Faster, Inclusive and Sustainable Growth” …
Education was given short shrift in the Budget with barely 17% increase in allocation that is likely to leave flagship programmes like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and mid-day meal scheme bereft of the necessary impetus. Allocation for SSA increased by 17%, while Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) — targeted at …
From lighting in streets and in the home, to power for water pumping, cooking, and basic processing and communications, access to energy enables people to live better lives. It also transforms health-care provision – enabling vaccines to be refrigerated, implements to be sterilized and diagnostic equipment to be powered. Generating …
India has witnessed high economic growth since the 1980s, and a reduction in the share of income poor, though the measured extent of this reduction varies, has been confirmed by different methods. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions, hence this paper explores the improvement in other social deprivations. An analysis of …
This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals and to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over …
Economic Survey of Maharashtra is prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning Department every year for presentation in the Budget Session of the State Legislature. The present publication for the year 2012-13 is the 52nd issue in the series. The information related to various socio-economic sectors of the …
The report consists of six chapters and dives extensively into the conceptual foundations of economic evaluation providing an outline of what would ideally be needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts. The report deals extensively with not only the conceptual building up of the system of Green National Accounts …
The Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI is an international poverty measure developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship Human Development Report in 2010. The innovative index reflects the multiple deprivations that a poor person faces with respect to education, health …
Economic Survey is one of the budget documents which indicates the important economic activities and achievements of the Government. The salient features of the State of the economy of Himachal Pradesh during 2012-13 are presented in Part-I, and statistical tables on various subjects are given in Part-II.
Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance. Read Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget speech February 28, 2013 Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2013-14. 2. I recall my last tenure as Finance Minister and acknowledge with gratitude the splendid support that I received …
Notwithstanding marginal growth in employment, there were as many as 28 million unemployed persons in the country in 2009-10, according to the Economic Survey 2012-13. “Despite negligible employment growth, the unemployment rate as per the current daily status (CDS method) fell from 8.2 per cent in 2004-5 to 6.6 per …
The National Economic Council (NEC) yesterday approved the National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) 2010-2021 to meet the challenges of economic, social and environmental sustainability of Bangladesh. The approval was given at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Planning Division Secretary Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam …
World Vision, a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization, dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice, launched a one-year project in the Badulla district to alleviate poverty stricken children and families in the area. They had allocated 20 million rupees for the effort and …
Jharkhand has ranked third among all states in implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and delivery of services and monitoring. Mridula Sinha, principal secretary, state social welfare department, said the most important part of the whole process was monitoring the 40,000 anganwadi centres. Progress was reviewed during frequent …
As primitive tribes continue to be in a state of acute poverty, ‘schedule area’ status for settlements of evicted tribals from Nagarahole National Park will favour their development. The status will also solve the problem of representation of tribals in political institutions, which will help them benefit from the welfare …
Aaron D’Souza, a Coca-Cola bottler, was on a different errand. D’Souza was not selling, distributing or merchandising the cola major’s wares, part of his regular routine, but was instead raising funds for the upliftment of rural school children. Part of the 13 franchise bottlers of the cola major in the …
