2021-08-04T22:41:44+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Syllabus:- GS I (Poverty and developmental issues); GS II (Issues relating to poverty and hunger) India has not released its Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) data since 2011-12. Normally a CES is conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSO) every five years. But the CES of 2017-18 (already conducted a [...]
2021-07-26T10:20:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Policy|Tags: LM|
This retail outlet sells a lot of products from all sorts of producers. The shopkeeper also buys stuff in a wholesale market and packages it neatly into smaller quantities, making it easier for buyers to shop. It sells its own-label goods a bit cheaper than the branded substitutes on offer. [...]
2021-07-26T07:24:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: LM|
Context:- It is now celebrates 30 years since India’s economic liberalization programme began. Massive libraries can be built solely devoted to how the Indian economy and Indian lives have changed since 24 July 1991, but let us swim against the tide and go back several decades before 1991, and look [...]
2021-07-15T13:15:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Context The provisional estimates of annual national income (2020-21), released on May 31 by the National Statistical Office, did not have any surprises, but for one, that is, there is nothing encouraging in the numbers. […]
2021-07-03T18:12:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
India reconnected with the global economy three decades ago. The Indian economy had begun to gather pace around 1980, after at least a decade of stagnation in living standards as economic growth barely kept pace with the rise in population. The growth spurt was accompanied by tentative changes in fiscal, [...]
2021-07-03T17:50:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The Communist Party of China (CPC), which observed the centenary of its founding on July 1 with a very assertive speech by Xi Jinping, has much to celebrate and the world, even a divided one, has to acknowledge its accomplishments. A country which suffered oppression by multiple colonial powers and [...]
2021-07-01T21:32:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Sunil Mittal, the chairman of Bharti Airtel, said recently that it [...]
2021-06-25T19:24:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The idea of setting up a bad bank to resolve the growing problem of non-performing assets (NPAs), or loans on which borrowers have defaulted, is back on the table. With commercial banks set to witness a spike in NPAs, or bad loans, in the wake of the contraction in the economy as [...]
2021-06-23T23:55:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The son of a corn merchant-turned sociologist, Charles Booth had little patience for Charles Dickens and others in his time, who used lyrical prose to describe the desperation of the poor in working class London. Booth was also angry, in 1885, over the claims made by F.D. Hyndman, the leader [...]
2021-06-22T17:55:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
After last year’s pandemic-induced economic collapse, the global economy is on track to make a synchronized—though unequal—recovery. A little over a year after disaster first struck, human ingenuity in the form of vaccines has mitigated its impact and accelerated the economic recovery. […]
