The report says that investment in human capital is a prerequisite for a healthy and productive population for nation building.
On 31 Jan 2018 The report says that as per the UN National Accounts Statistics data, India’s ranking improved from 14th position in 2006 to 7th position in 2016, among the world’s 15 largest economies in terms of ov...
On 31 Jan 2018 The report says that science, technology, and innovation have instrumental and intrinsic value for society.
On 31 Jan 2018 Several key measures and achievements in the industry and infrastructure sector have been
discussed in this Chapter. There has been considerable progress in Roads, Railways, Metro Rail,
Shipping, Ci...
On 31 Jan 2018 India’s external sector continued to be resilient and strong in 2017-18 so far, with the Balance of
Payments situation continuing to be comfortable with the Current Account Deficit at 1.8 percent of
...
On 31 Jan 2018 During 2017-18 (till January), monetary policy remained steady with only one policy rate cut
in August. As the Y-o-Y effect of demonetisation wore off, the growth rate of both Currency in
Circulatio...
On 31 Jan 2018 Sound public financial management has been one of the pillars of India’s macro-economic
stability in the last three years. Based on this firm footing, the Government, in partnership with
the States,...
On 31 Jan 2018 The government’s efforts to make business and commerce easy have been widely acknowledged.
The next frontier on the ease of doing business is addressing pendency, delays and backlogs
in the appellat...
On 31 Jan 2018 The challenge of gender is long-standing, probably going back millennia, so all
stakeholders are collectively responsible for its resolution. India must confront the societal preference,
even meta-p...
On 31 Jan 2018 The first order fact about the developing world today is that this is an era of unprecedented
prosperity. And that is true about India too which has been one of the most dynamic economic
performers...
On 31 Jan 2018 Long-run institutional development co-evolves with fiscal accountability involving, perhaps
requiring, a low and declining dependence on devolved resources and a high and rising share of
direct taxe...
On 31 Jan 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme...
On 31 Jan 2018 Data on the international exports of states (the first in India’s history) suggests a strong
correlation between export performance and states’ standard of living. India’s exports are unusual
in tha...
On 30 Jan 2018 With Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
growth averaging 7.5 per cent between 2014-
15 and 2016-17, India can be rated as among
the best performing economies in the world on
this parameter.
On 29 Jan 2018 The GST Council offers a model “technology” of cooperative federalism
to apply to many other policy reforms. Over the medium term, three areas of policy focus
stand out: Employment: finding good job...
On 29 Jan 2018 Budget speech by Finance Minister of India, Mr.Arun Jaitley.
On 01 Feb 2017 Union Budget 2017-18: Budget Speech by Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley
On 01 Feb 2017 This year has been marked by several historic economic policy developments. On
the domestic side, a constitutional amendment paved the way for the long-awaited and transformational goods and services...
On 31 Jan 2017 India’s growth story has largely remained positive on the strength of domestic absorption, and the country has registered a robust and steady pace of economic growth in 2015-16 as it did in 2014-15....
On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
On 26 Feb 2016 Budget speech of Finance Minister
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