2022-02-01T03:52:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The Economic Survey of 2022 employs geospatial data gathered from satellites, smart devices, drones, and other anonymous data sources to map the long-term development and impact of India’s infrastructure boom. […]
2021-11-26T13:11:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
The economic ravages of the pandemic have had an uneven impact and taxation policies continue to be regressive Background:- There has been great chatter about a V-shaped recovery for quite a while, ever since the first lockdown following the novel coronavirus pandemic. […]
2021-10-06T21:48:27+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: LM|
The age of oil is far from over, in spite of the global urgency to curb carbon emissions, the ‘plus’ avatar of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) has regained unity as a cartel, and, as global crude nears $80 per barrel, it is clearly time for India to [...]
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. [...]
2021-10-06T16:27:42+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. […]
2021-09-26T21:51:09+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 [...]
2021-09-22T15:16:18+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 [...]
2021-08-12T07:18:47+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Indian Express|
Syllabus Connect:- GS III ( Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways, etc.) On July 1, 2020, the Indian Railways launched the formal process of inviting private parties to run trains on the Indian railway system. Bids were finally opened last month. Hopes of a large participation were belied as there [...]
2021-08-05T09:15:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: IAEA|
Syllabus Connect:- GS III (Energy) Context:- At the beginning of the new millennium, amid growing awareness of the link between energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, the notion of a ‘nuclear renaissance’ became popular. Scientists and policy makers identified low carbon nuclear power as a potential protagonist in the [...]
2021-08-05T10:00:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Syllabus Connect:- GS III (Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment) What you will learn in this editorial :- The four factors that are essential for growth and must be taken care of by policy intervention. Why India is under going K-Shaped recovery [...]
