The Bill is critical to the disbursement of Rs. 42,000 crore to the States for afforestation The Congress and the BJP reached a compromise on Wednesday, clearing the decks for the passage of the long-pending
Development policies become more effective when combined with insights into human behaviour, argues the World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behaviour. The report has found that policy decisions
India could be overstating poverty levels as the private final consumption estimates captured by the National Income Accounts (NIA) is nearly twice as much as the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
Says 10 tasks he set forth would take economy to high growth Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the government’s greatest achievement was the lifting of 140 million people out of poverty in
Delhi needs to ensure 100% metering to cut losses due to leakages in distribution The Delhi government’s decision to slash electricity user charges could impact its financial position unless Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal undertakes a drive to ensure 100 per cent metering simultaneously to cut the losses due to leakages in distribution.
An internal analysis in the Planning Commission shows that India can eliminate the poverty gap by spending just a fraction of its annual anti-poverty budget instead of inaugurating new anti-poverty schemes.
Unless India’s minimum support prices for farmers and food subsidies are safeguarded against the rules of the World Trade Organisation, the Ninth WTO Ministerial scheduled for next month in Bali could
To achieve his target of building 20 km of national highways per day, Highways Minister Kamal Nath seems to have it all figured out
May 19, 2009. Parliament
Like all successes, the UPA
The breakdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial talks in Geneva on 30 July has endangered the Doha round. Moreover, India
