Category Archives: Employment and Livelihoods
Survey outlines reform agenda for accelerated growth
The Economic Survey 2010-11 has advised the government to carry out nearly a dozen reforms pertaining to various sectors of the economy and stressed that action in this regard would be necessary to achieve the 9 per cent GDP (gross … Continue reading
Survey Projects 9% Growth Next Fiscal
Barring inflation which continues to remain the government’s “priority” concern, the Economic Survey 2010-11 on Friday painted quite a rosy macroeconomic scenario projecting a robust GDP (gross domestic product) expansion of nine per cent (+/- 0.25%) next fiscal — reverting … Continue reading
New CRZ Notification: One Step Forward, And Two Back?
Even as the new CRZ notification grants fishing communities the right to redevelop the land on which they live, it lays open coastal lands for other forms of development which will adversely impact their livelihoods.
‘We Are Seeing The Emergence Of A New Poor’
In 2000, world leaders from United Nations member states envisioned a new world for the third millennium and charted what came to be known as the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). In a candid interview, Minar Pimple, Deputy Director Asia, UN … Continue reading
The Poverty Of The Rich
GOING BY the peaks reached by the Sensex every time there is a natural calamity, the Indian stock market is in for exciting times, it seems. Echoing the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a recent report … Continue reading
Growth And Other Concerns
AMARTYA SEN A comparitive development saga of India to the rest of the world by Prof Amartya Sen..
Sardar Sarovar Project, Canals of India Sagar & Omkareshwar and Jobat Dam Project
This publication is a report on Sardar Sarovar Project, Canals of India Sagar & Omkareshwar and Jobat Dam Project. Read full Report Source: India Peoples tribunal on Crime and Honor
Kind To Cash
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on welfare programmes. To begin with, it wants to end the public distribution system … Continue reading
17,000 Farmers committed suicide n 2009: NCRB
The number of suicides by farmers continues to rise countrywide with Maharashtra topping the list for the tenth consecutive year. Even as food prices soar, farmers in India do not seem to be profiting. The National Crime Record Bureau’s most recent … Continue reading
Safe Livelihoods
The development or closure of industry is generally based on the premise that industry must be isolated from other human activities. Not only does this throw workers out of jobs, it does nothing to control pollution, because every relocated hazardous … Continue reading