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India has more rich people than poor now
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Sunday, August 01, 2010 |
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The number of high-income households in India exceeded the number of low-income households for the first time ever. The estimate was done by National Council of applied research (NCAER). This has happened despite the economic depression.India's savings rate is the highest in the world, reports The Times of India. |
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Soniaji and Social Welfare
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Sunday, July 04, 2010 |
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Many of the advices of Sonia Gandhi have become policies in the recent past. However, if helping poor is the intention behing these policies, Sonia Gandi should unlearn some principles she learned from her mother in law. Her grandiose welfare programs made the poor even more poor, writes Tavleen Singh in Indian Express. |
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The taste of shame
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Sunday, July 04, 2010 |
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There is something wrong witha country in which the poor are waiting to be fed by the Government. Only the most desperate people seek such help from the Government.The Government shouldn't be involved in charitable activities.The poor people don't need alms from the Government. what they need is work, writes Sreelatha Menon in Business Standard. |
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Food security: Half-hearted approach
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
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The Food Security Bill has been tabled in Parliament without adequately taking into consideration the reforms required in agriculture production, marketing and public distribution. After rights to employment, information and education, now it is the right to food. The PDS is in a mess. It is very likely that food security will coexist with starvation and malnourishment, writes Sharad Joshi in Business Line.
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AP, TN have more poor households than citizens
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
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State governments do not restrict benefits to households classified as being BPL and often issue additional cards, writes Anil Padmanabhan and Sangeeta Singh in Mint. |
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Increasing electricity production: De-romanticising green energy
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Saturday, December 26, 2009 |
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For sustaining a growth rate that is necessary for poverty alleviation and for funding increased spending on social sector, India needs to more than quadruple her electricity generation in next 20 or so years. And it requires excessive ignorance and infinite romanticism, to believe that we can do without large projects based on coal, oil, nuclear, and hydro. Alternatives are currently not really viable, solar energy is too expensive, and wind power is too unreliable, writes Chetan Pandit. |
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Pakistan: Study reveals the importance of economic freedom for development
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Thursday, December 03, 2009 |
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The Report "Well-Being and Freedom at Crossroads: An Empirical Inquiry into Development" published by the Alternate Solutions Institute, Pakistan, finds that market and policy integrated with rule of law can bring well-being to all. As economic freedom and well-being are shown closely related for all income levels, granting economic freedom should precede poverty alleviation programs. |
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Planting the seeds of prosperity in Africa
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
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The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index was developed by a group of 13 distinguished economists and policy experts. The study ranks 104 nations by their level of prosperity. Of the 15 countries that ranked lowest on the Index, nine are in Africa, although only about half the countries from the continent are included in the study. The report identifies nine ‘building blocks’ of prosperity - economic fundamentals, entrepreneurship and innovation, education, democratic institutions, governance, health, personal freedom, security, and social capital. Nations lacking in these areas are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to achieving both wealth and happiness, writes Thompson Ayodele and Roger Bate in CXpress.com |
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India bests China in Prosperty Index
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 |
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Just as an individual's well-being is based on more than his bank balance, a country's prosperity depends on more than rote calculations of its gross domestic product (GDP). And on these less-celebrated, but no less important metrics of prosperity, India surpasses China, in the Legatum Prosperity Index, writes Roger Bate and Barun Mitra in the Daily News & Analysis. |
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The road to trade and growth
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
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History shows that better transport means more prosperity. The pathetic state of India’s transport infrastructure is a major reason it still isn’t very prosperous, writes Sauvik Chakraverti, in the Mint. |
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