In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses amounted to US$202.7 billion. The 2023 earthquake in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic was the most catastrophic event …
In this winter of gloom, doom and corruption, the government can bask in some warmth from data collected by its statistical agencies. (Alas, these agencies have yet to hire some basic data-processing capabilities from minor computer firms, let alone agencies like Infosys. Perhaps Nandan Nilekani can loan some programmers from …
Although Nitish Kumar's victory in the Bihar assembly elections reflects a positive response to the development track record and the restoration of law and order in the last five years, the uneven distribution of benefits from public investment and development initiatives at the village level flows from the existing socio-economic …
This latest biennial publication by Central Water Commission provides a wide range of statistical data on water resources and the related sectors in India. This publication is being brought out once in every two years and covers a wide range of data on water resources and its related resources in …
Special Economic Zones in India have been given many privileges to boost the trade and bring the exports of India to a respectable rank in terms of global scenario. Moreover, India's external trade has been rising with export growth rate of about 22% and the import growth rate of about …
As per World Resources Institute’s Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) version 7.0, USA has less than 5 per cent of the world’s population, but accounts for more than 20 per cent of the global carbon dioxide emissions in 2006. India, with almost 17 per cent of global population, accounts for …
Responsible Aluminium is a group of stakeholders collectively involved in the aluminium value-chain which have initiated a scoping phase seeking to establish a non-for-profit initiative to promote responsible practices relating to business ethics, social, human rights and environmental performance throughout the aluminium supply chain, from mining of the resource to …
The obesity epidemic is spreading to low-income and middle-income countries as a result of new dietary habits and sedentary ways of life, fuelling chronic diseases and premature mortality. In this report we present an assessment of public health strategies designed to tackle behavioural risk factors for chronic diseases that are …
New Delhi: If you have been wondering why all the frenetic construction which the city saw in the last few years, does not seem to have made too much of a dent in the congestion levels, here
The overall picture regarding land use patterns in India constitutes divergent situations in regard to land use patterns across different states. There is a high degree of concentration of major land use classes in a few states. For instance, the area under the forests are mostly concentrated in the hilly …
Livelihood security has been interpreted in different ways by various scholars. While livelihood has been defined as an adequate flow of resources (both cash and kind) to meet the basic needs of the people, access to social institutions relating to kinship, family and neigbourhood, village and gender bias free property …
The basic purpose of this manual is to provide the users of data/information on Agricultural Prices and Marketing with a ready?to?use reference guide on methodological aspects of Agricultural Prices and Marketing that facilitate international comparison and help in aggregation of statistics needed to derive meaningful conclusions. Another purpose of this …
Absence of a viable business model prevents conversion of the huge rural expenditure on health into an economic activity that generates incomes and dethrones India as the world
The study to examine the growth and instability in production and export of Indian lac is based on secondary data collected for 38 years spanning from 1970-71 to 2007-08. The data were analyzed by using exponential function and instability index.
This article reports findings from a survey of anganwadis, undertaken in the tribal region of Gujarat. It was found that services were poorer in the more backward and distant hilly areas than in the plain areas of the region. The coverage of population by anganwadis was not uniform and was …
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey India (GATS India) is the global standard for systematically monitoring adult tobacco use (smoking and smokeless) and tracking key tobacco control indicators. Global Adult Tobacco Survey India was carried out in all 29 states of the country and 2 Union Territories of Chandigarh and Puducherry, …
The livestock sector globally is highly dynamic. In developing countries, it is evolving in response to rapidly increasing demand for livestock products. In developed countries, demand for livestock products is stagnating, while many production systems are increasing their efficiency and environmental sustainability. Historical changes in the demand for livestock products …
For progressive improvement in the economic growth of a developing country like India, sustainable energy supply is of paramount significance. Coal, being a relatively cheap and abundant energy resource in contrast to other meager hydrocarbon resource potential in India, remains the focus of attention of the energy planners ever since …
