2022-10-25T15:52:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Indian Express|
Background Last week, the World Bank released its latest report on global poverty. It stated that “economic upheavals brought on by Covid-19 and later the war in Ukraine” had produced “an outright reversal” in poverty reduction across the planet. […]
2022-10-25T13:06:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Indian Express|
Background The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) indicated that it will soon commence limited pilot launches of e-rupee (e`), or Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or digital rupee, for specific use cases. […]
2026-01-20T20:03:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
Background A heatwave is a period of unusually hot weather with above normal temperatures that typically last three or more days. In India, heatwaves are generally experienced during March-June. […]
2022-10-24T08:02:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Background In September, a study published in the journal Science said earth may have already passed through five dangerous tipping points due to the 1.1°C of global heating caused by humanity to date. Calls for developing and transferring technologies to support action on climate change have become louder worldwide. Technology has become a [...]
2022-10-24T07:42:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Modern state is a welfare state, but if borrowing for spending could make countries rich, then no country would be poor. State governments must sustainably create high-paying jobs by raising the productivity of five places — three are of them are not geographic. […]
2022-10-13T16:05:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Background: The impossible trinity, or the trilemma, refers to the idea that an economy cannot pursue independent monetary policy, maintain a fixed exchange rate, and allow the free flow of capital across its borders at the same time. According to economists, any economy can choose to pursue only two out [...]
2022-10-13T15:44:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Background The Supreme Court of India has sought the most recent position of the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order of 1950, which allows only members of Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist religions to be recognised as SCs. […]
2022-10-13T15:25:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The story so far Moonlighting — or employees working for remuneration with entities other than their employers — has been a hot topic in recent months. During the pandemic, those with desk jobs had more time on their hands and thus it was easier to take on a few projects [...]
2022-10-04T17:48:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Background India’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.43% in September due to an increase in labour participation in the rural and urban areas according to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) In August, unemployment had surged to a one-year high of 8.3% as employment sequentially fell by 2 [...]
2022-10-02T21:26:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Background India adds 11 more wetlands to the list of Ramsar sites to make total 75 Ramsar sites in the 75th year of Independence. List of Sites
