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In pushing for a lower forecast of growth, Singh seems to have heeded to the warning of his Economic Advisory Council chairman C Rangarajan that a very high level of growth would fuel inflation way beyond the government's comfort level. ...
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India's economy grew 7.7 percent in the June quarter from a year earlier, almost in line with expectations, government data on Tuesday showed. ...
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Wide disparities across states in pupil teacher ratio do not augur well for the future of primary education in India. ...
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The new CPI series shows that rural India faces higher inflation pressures...
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Even as it fine-tunes norms for financial inclusion, the Reserve Bank of India should desist from micro-managing banks in the process. ...
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The average income per household in the western states is the highest in this segment, followed by the eastern states. The western region also has significantly higher savings per household. ...
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A septuagenarian activist’s success in channeling Indian public anger against corruption may spur calls to speed up poll reforms before general elections in 2014, analysts said. ...
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For many years much of the data never got used; only aggregates were used for policy purposes. The millions of cuts and cross-cuts that could enable a better understanding of the highly heterogeneous Indian population were rarely attempted, since there wa...
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Or, how National Sample Survey data can be misinterpreted and misused ...
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India doesn’t need large sample surveys to generate better estimates....
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The target is part of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s planned $1 trillion revamp of choked transport and power networks to achieve faster expansion. The push must transcend a history of insufficient investment, which has left the world’s most populous...
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The demand of new states hasn’t finished yet as nine new states are still in consideration before home ministry. ...
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Enhancing public infrastructure in districts that have good facilities will drive foreign direct investment. Researchers in economics have highlighted several beneficial effects of FDI inflows on the domestic economy. ...
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Accessibility to healthcare services and lack of basic amenities still present major challenges. ...
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The organized sector in India created 704,800 jobs between January 2011 and June 2011 and 369,200 more jobs are expected to be created by September 2011, according to the latest findings of Ma Foi Randstad Employment Trends Survey – Wave2. ...
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Though government spending on health and family welfare in per capita terms is absurdly low in India, private health expenses are rising with little government oversight on quality, consumer redressal and so on. ...
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What is the advantage of smaller states? "The logic of creation of small states should be to lead to more efficiency and better governance ...
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The top components of household consumption remain travel and conveyance, consumer services and rent. But all of them have significantly lower shares than in the richer segments, as food begins to dominate budgets. ...
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After 25 years, India has finally made it to the Big Mac Index – although, technically, the Big Mac isn’t available in India. ...
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The government is expanding education and rural jobs plans whose costs could swell by almost 2 percentage points of gross domestic product, International Monetary Fund estimates show. ...