India's unemployment rate is likely to decline by as much as 97 basis points by 2028 as the country's economy hits the USD 5 trillion mark, fuelling a rise in employment, a new report said. Unemployment rate -- the percentage of people in the labour force who are without jobs …
This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) provides the first quantification of the macroeconomic impact of doubling the global share of renewables in the energy mix by 2030. The study builds on IRENA’s previous work on the socio-economic benefits of renewable energy, as well as on REmap 2030, …
This report presents critical analyses of economic policies, policies for food security, education, health and women’s empowerment and concludes that to sustain economic growth and advance human development, South Asia needs high level political commitment to achieve its economic and social goals. The eighteenth report addresses the issue of connection …
Achieving sustainable development will mean changes for the global workforce, according to the 2015 Human Development Report (HDR) report, which focuses on the theme 'Work for Human Development.' The report recommends a broad view of work that includes creative, unpaid care and voluntary work, in order to harness benefits for …
Says Goa Foundation petition is attempt to re-visit, re-agitate and re-open issues concluded earlier PANJIM: Alleging that the Goa Foundation petition challenging renewals of 88 iron ore mining leases is nothing but an attempt to re-visit, re-agitate and re-open the issues concluded earlier, the State government has said that any …
A competitive city is a city that successfully facilitates its firms and industries to create jobs, raise productivity, and increase the incomes of citizens over time. Worldwide, improving the competitiveness of cities is a pathway to eliminating extreme poverty and to promoting shared prosperity. The primary source of job creation …
The Global Gender Gap Index featured in the 2015 Report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health-based and political indicators. With a decade of data, this edition of the Global Gender Gap Report – first published in …
This report looks at concrete results of green growth in Costa Rica, rather than listing policies and projects. It examines the root causes of under-performance, the synergies between the country’s economy and environment and prospects for future progress in both domains. It concentrates on four primary recommendations for change as …
The association noted that the turnover in firecrackers was over `1,000 crores, and with 350 units in Sivakasi alone, it provides direct employment to over three lakh people and indirect employment to ten lakh people. “Any adverse direction against use of crackers during Diwali will have a disastrous effect on …
This book lays out a range of policy actions that are needed at the various phases of the demographic transition and uses global and regional experiences to provide evidence on what has worked and what has not. Countries have a menu of options available to speed up the transition, improve …
The basic premise of this report is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are …
Ghana’s strong economic growth in the past two decades helped cut the country’s poverty rate in half, from 52.6% to 21.4% between 1991 and 2012. This is based on Ghana’s national poverty line. But according to the newly released “Poverty Reduction in Ghana: Progress and Challenges,” report, sustained poverty reduction …
BULANDSHAHR: Piqued by an NGT order that necessitated brick kiln units to procure Environment Clearance Certificate (ECC) from Pollution Control Board (PCB) before commencing operations, 17,000 units in Uttar Pradesh here have decided to stop operations this year. According to head of Janpad Ent Nirmata Samiti Santosh Kansal, the brick …
How’s Life? describes the essential ingredients that shape people’s well-being in OECD and partner countries. It includes a wide variety of statistics, capturing both material well-being (such as income, jobs and housing) and the broader quality of people’s lives (such as their health, education, work-life balance, environment, social connections, civic …
The Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016 assesses the competitiveness of 140 world economies. Using a mixture of quantitative and survey data, it ranks countries overall by combining 113 indicators grouped under 12 pillars of competitiveness: institutions; infrastructure; macroeconomic environment; health and primary education; higher education and training; goods market efficiency; labour …
A new report, the “2015 African Agriculture Status Report,” released at the African Green Revolution Forum, states that modernizing Africa’s agriculture sector to attract young people would help tackle youth unemployment and food insecurity. The report, produced by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), said outdated land-tenure …
HCM City authorities have altered their poverty-reduction strategy by focusing on long-term, sustainable results, following 23 years of success in reducing the poverty rate. "While celebrating these achievements, we have to admit that it was unsustainable. Households escaping poverty face risks of falling into poverty again," said Le Thanh Hai, …
The Jaintia Coal Miners & Dealers Association (JCMDA) has written to the Chairman of Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) to convene a Special Session to discuss the situation arising out of the NGT ban on coal mining. According to the JCMDA, the aftermath of the ban has affected the …
The rate of poverty in Sarawak dropped to below one per cent (0.9%) last year, said Malaysia's chief statistician Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Hasan. The poverty rate reduction in 2012 was 2.4 per cent, he said while launching a statistics transformation seminar organised by the state Statistics Department here Tuesday. …
Taking advantage of its growing working-age population could help accelerate South Africa’s growth to 5.4 percent a year and double per capita incomes by 2030, according to the South Africa Economic Update released by the World Bank. The report explores how the projected growth can be attained by creating a …
A report issued by Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on International Youth Day said on Wednesday that 27.8% of young people in Egypt are poor and 24.1% live on the edge of poverty. The report said one of the contributing factors is that almost half of …
