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 domestic product) expansion projected for 2011-12 and further acceleration in economic growth in the years […]
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 to the pre-global crisis growth levels even in the wake of downside risks emerging from […]
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 Millenium Development Goals Campaign, speaks to SHRIYA MOHAN about the significance of the 2009 G20 […]
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 titled Hiding Behind the Poor by the environmental group Greenpeace states: “Changing rainfall patterns will result […]
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 of food grain and give money directly to the people. Its logic: the new system […]
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 figures reveal that more than 17,000 farmers committed suicide in 2009, the worst year since […]
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 unit will simply continue to pollute elsewhere. It would be better to promote industry that […]