2021-10-06T17:16:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
What are the Pandora Papers? These are 11.9 million leaked files from 14 global corporate services firms which set up about 29,000 off-the-shelf companies and private trusts in not just obscure tax jurisdictions but also countries such as Singapore, New Zealand, and the United States, for clients across the world. [...]
2021-10-06T16:50:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: The Indian Express|
Context:- The Calcutta High Court has given West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee a deadline to pass an order in the defection case involving MLA Mukul Roy. He had contested and won the 2021 Assembly elections on a BJP ticket and then joined the Trinamool Congress. BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari, [...]
2021-10-06T16:27:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: Business Line|
For a country like India, forex reserves have long been treated as precautionary savings that the government acquires as a “rainy day” fund to tide over any sudden decrease in capital inflows. In other words, it acts as a buffer against shocks to external wealth. […]
2021-10-06T16:08:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
Context:- Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict is a joint study of the United Nations and the World Bank. The study originates from the conviction on the part of both institutions that the attention of the international community needs to be urgently refocused on prevention. [...]
2021-10-06T15:31:35+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|
A realistic assessment of the circumstances in which it has to operate should have induced the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to follow a moderate course. Instead, it has sent out unmistakable signs of a preference for extremism. A peculiar state of mind is almost certainly in play, but to ascribe [...]
2021-10-05T14:07:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|Tags: The Hindu|
Context:- The first and historic United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021 which was held in September this year, concluded after an intense ‘bottom-up’ process conceived in 2019 by UN Secretary General António Guterres to find solutions and ‘catalyse momentum’ to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks [...]
2021-09-26T21:51:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
OUR THOUGHTS:- For long and particularly since 1991 reforms, FDIs were held as “gold” in the new emerging economics. However, FDIs do come with their fair share of opportunities and issues. Our leaders have chased FDIs through various means but the era of FDIs as the beacon of sunshine on [...]
2021-09-22T15:35:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: Frontline|
The prolonged closure of schools after the sudden and totally unplanned lockdown in March 2020 to a possible re-opening at the end of September 2021 (a period of 18 months) has grabbed some media attention at last. Following the release of the Emergency Report of School Education (ERSE) based on the School [...]
2021-09-22T15:16:18+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: LM|
What if you can’t be the ‘very best’? Why, of course, you must try hard to be better at ‘being better’. Whether it is contestants in beauty pageants, educational institutions seeking to go up some notches in university/business-school rankings, or even countries which seek to attract investors by pitching themselves [...]
2021-08-21T09:42:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: gny|
The world is pursuing a path of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, keys to human development. India is walking the same track, targeting a five trillion economy in the near future. We expect higher GDP, better economic status and a high standard of living like other developed countries. However, linear infrastructure [...]
