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 …
The government is fulfilling its promise of providing power and other essential utilities to industries across Sindh and the gas pipeline to Small Industries Estate Northern Bypass is a solid example of this commitment. This was stated by the Sindh Minister for Industries and Commerce Rauf Siddiqui while speaking at …
Ministry of Environment in collaboration with national and international agencies will launch the first phase of "TAHAFUZ-Together in Emergency for Health, Family and Environment," for 5,000 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Mardan, costing Rs 4 million. This was revealed by Kamran Lashari, Secretary Ministry of Environment, while addressing a press …
This report of a conference held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study on special economic zones raises doubts about their desirability on different counts. It is centred around three themes: (1) SEZs and economic development; (2) SEZs and distributive implications; and (3) SEZs and the legal issues.
Unless advocates of a cap-and-trade emissions scheme can design a credible and well-funded compensation mechanism to compensate the losers (including coal miners, heavy industrial workers, and their communities) carbon control policy risks becoming mired in the same controversy as trade liberalisation. In a report published this month, Michael Cragg of …
E.ON UK, Dong Energy and Masdar have agreed to push ahead with the London Array wind farm, giving a boost to the UK plan to build up massive offshore wind farms to meet its carbon reduction target. Frank Mastiaux, Chief Executive of E.ON Climate and Renewables, told reporters via a …
Australia's government shook off on Friday coal industry warnings that 10,000 jobs would be lost and 16 coal mines forced to close unless a planned national carbon emissions trading scheme was dramatically overhauled. The centre-left government's exclusion of coal mining from compensation measures promised to the biggest polluting firms exposed …
The Census of 2002 to identify the poor in rural areas of India was the third in a quinquennial series. However, it has been appropriately criticised. This paper elaborates on the criticisms, and proposes an alternative set of criteria and methodology for conducting the next (now overdue) census of the …
An employment project involving repair of rural roads has benefited 24,444 poor women in six districts of the country. The project run by the Local Government Division of the Local Government and Rural Development and Coopera-tives Ministry is financed mainly by the European Commission. UNDP and the government are also …
When the 2004 elections resulted in victory for the Congress Party and its allies, Sonia Gandhi could have become Prime Minister. However, she declined and bequeathed the highest position to Dr. Manmohan Singh. By rising above the craving for power and position that exists in politics, she showed that her …
This study by PIF and NCAER puts together evidences on implementation of NREGA and its achievements so far. Says that the scheme has worked well but the level of satisfaction has been only 50 percent and suggests that it should be implemented as a state scheme mandated under a Central …
This note details proposals for making NREGA work better and suggests that REGS must be implemented by states not as a central Scheme but as a state scheme mandated under a central act. NREGA has a very laudable objective: to enhance livelihood security in rural areas through guaranteed 100 days
Mihir Shah The concepts of multiplier and accelerator borrowed from macroeconomic theory illuminate the enormous potential of NREGA and help set standards that it must be judged by. Over the last few months, just as the economy entered its current recessionary phase, the mainstream media, which till then had been …
Speakers at a meeting on Monday said that rural infrastructure project is an important initiative toward alleviating poverty of rural women. They said the project will assist and improve the condition of vulnerable households by providing security of livelihood after five years, when women those involved in the project will …
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Minfa) Tuesday released the findings of the baseline survey on the National Programme for Food Security and Productivity Enhancement of Small Farmers, known as Crop Maximisation Project phase-II (CMP-II). During January to June 2008, WFP conducted …
