Economy

Global employment trends 2014

The uneven economic recovery and successive downward revisions in economic growth projections have had an impact on the global employment situation. Almost 202 million people were unemployed in 2013 around the world, an increase of almost 5 million compared with the year before.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2014
International Labour Organization
Tags:
Unemployment, Poverty, Developing Countries, European Union (EU), Asia, South Asia, Africa, Services, Consumption Patterns, Economy
Poverty

Employment and unemployment situation in India (July 2011 - June 2012)

This report is based on the employment and unemployment survey conducted in the 68th round of NSS during July 2011 to June 2012.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2014
National Sample Survey Office
Tags:
Unemployment, India, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Workers, Poverty, Consumption Patterns, Statistics
Economy

Sri Lanka household income and expenditure survey 2012/13

Department of Census and Statistics conducts Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) once in every five years. This survey provides information on Household Income and Expenditure to measure the levels and changes in living conditions of the people.

Publication Date: 
24/12/2013
Samples Survey Division (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Consumption Patterns, Sri Lanka, Population, Education, Health, Poverty, Food Prices, Housing, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Garbage, Electricity, South Asia
Habitat And Urbanisation

The state of India’s cities and towns

This book of charts on the state of cities and towns produced by ORF Urban Policy Research Initiative covering five states - NCT Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram, presents a picture of the current state and developments in employment, education and public infrastructure provision, among others, and the disparities between states, within states and between different sections of the urban society.

Publication Date: 
20/12/2013
Jochen Mistelbacher, Prashant Kumar
Observer Research Foundation
Tags:
Urbanisation, India, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Economy, Unemployment, Education, Health, Housing, Infrastructure Development, Population, Industry, Consumption Patterns
Food Policy

From food insufficiency towards trade dependency: A historical analysis of global food availability

Achieving global food security is one of the major challenges of the coming decades. In order to tackle future food security challenges we must understand the past. This study presents a historical analysis of global food availability, one of the key elements of food security. By calculating national level dietary energy supply and production for nine time steps during 1965–2005 we classify countries based on their food availability, food self-sufficiency and food trade. We also look at how diets have changed during this period with regard to supply of animal based calories.

Publication Date: 
18/12/2013
Miina Porkka, Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert & et al
PLoS ONE
Tags:
Food Security, Trade, Asia, China, South America, Consumption Patterns, Imports, Agriculture, Malnutrition, Europe, Africa, Global, Statistics, Animal Products, India, WTO
Water Supply

End use water consumption in households: impact of socio-demographic factors and efficient devices

To assess water savings in households using efficient devices and to understand how savings vary between different socio-demographic groups in the community, high resolution end use water consumption data is required (i.e. disaggregating water use for showers, toilets, clothes washers and garden irrigation etc.). This paper reports selected findings from the Gold Coast Residential End Use Study (Australia), which focussed on the relationship between a range of socio-demographic and household stock efficiency variables and water end use consumption levels.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2013
Rachelle M. Willis, Rodney A. Stewart, Damien P. Giurco & et al
Journal of Cleaner Production
60
107-115
Tags:
Urban Water Supply, Water Efficiency, Australia, Roof Top Water Harvesting, Consumption Patterns
Food Policy

Understanding the sustainability of retail food recovery

In this paper we study the simultaneous problems of food waste and hunger in the context of food (waste) rescue and redistribution as a means for mitigating hunger. To this end, we develop an empirical model that can be used in Monte Carlo simulations to study the dynamics of the underlying problem. Our model's parameters are derived from a data set provided by a large food bank and food rescue organization in north central Colorado. We find that food supply is a non-parametric heavy-tailed process that is well modeled with an extreme value peaks over threshold model.

Publication Date: 
10/10/2013
Caleb Phillips, Rhonda Hoenigman, Becky Higbee & et al
PLoS ONE
8
10
1-9
Tags:
Food Supply, United States Of America (US), Consumption Patterns
Food Policy

The state of food insecurity in the world 2013

Political stability, effective governance and, most importantly, uninterrupted longterm commitments to mainstreaming food security and nutrition in policies are key to the reduction of hunger says this 2013 edition of FAO report on the State of Food Insecurity.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2013
FAO
Tags:
Food Security, Malnutrition, Agriculture, Education, Women, Health Policy, Maternal Health, Child Health, Poverty, Governance, Consumption Patterns, Africa, Asia, Economic Development, Infrastructure Development, Food Prices, Climate Change, Developing Countries, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Rural Development
Health

Saffolalife study reveals that 71% Delhites are at high cardiovascular disease risk

The Saffolalife Study 2013, India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease, found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

Publication Date: 
26/09/2013
Saffola
Tags:
Heart Diseases, Lifestyles, India, Consumption Patterns, Processed Foods, Delhi, Women, Diabetes, Chennai (T), Ahmedabad (T), Kolkata, Chandigarh, Hyderabad (T), Mumbai, Obesity, Vegetables
Economy

Report of the committee for evolving a composite development index of states (Raghuram Rajan Panel report)

The expert committee for Evolving a Composite Development Index of States—headed by Raghuram G Rajan, governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the former Chief Economic Advisor submitted this report to the government. It recommends a new mechanism for allocation on the basis of composite development index for states. According to this, Odisha and Bihar are the least developed states.

Publication Date: 
26/09/2013
Ministry of Finance
Tags:
Development, India, Poverty, Infant mortality, Health, Unemployment, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Education, Consumption Patterns, Women, Urbanisation, Scheduled Castes, Tribals, Bihar, Economic Development, Private Sector, Public Sector

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