Economy

Chhattisgarh's GDP growth highest in 2009-10

R Krishna Das / Raipur August 30, 2010, 0:05 IST

Posts a growth rate of 11.49 per cent, surpasses Gujarat.

Chhattisgarh, often considered a hot-bed of left wing extremism, has emerged as the state with the highest economic growth in the last financial year.

The state, which was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000, posted a growth rate of 11.49 per cent in constant prices to Rs 6

Publication Date: 
30/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Economy, Chhattisgarh, Economic Development, Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Economy

Rapid industrialisation for tribals' development

BHUBANESWAR: In 2004, the Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy (CMIE) had predicted that the State had potential to attract FDI worth $ 40 billion in view of its huge bauxite, iron ore and coking coal reserves.

Interestingly, the big ticket investments like Posco, Mittal etc queued up into Orissa from 2005.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Tribals, Development, People, Industry, Economic Development, Orissa (Odisha), Mineral-Based Industry, FAO
Habitat And Urbanisation

Bangladesh among 100 best countries

Bangladesh has been ranked 88th among the 100 countries in the first-ever list of the world's best countries prepared by international newsmagazine, Newsweek in its latest issue.
 
For this special survey, published in its August 23 & 30 issue, Newsweek chose five categories of national well-being such as educati
Publication Date: 
25/08/2010
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, Education, Health, Economic Development, Pakistan, India
Economy

Asia's middle class will help rebalance economy: ADB

Asia

Publication Date: 
20/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asia, Consumption Patterns, Economic Development, Poverty
Economy

India's middle class drives consumption, growth: ADB

NEW DELHI: Even as innovative and cheaply priced products targeted at India's booming middle class are helping to spur domestic consumption and growth, this segment of the population remains vulnerable to economic shocks and carefully calibrated policy measures will be needed to sustain income gains in the longer-term, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said.

In a special chapter of

Publication Date: 
20/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Economy, Poverty, Consumption Patterns, Infrastructure Development, Economic Development, Asia
Economy

India to become worlds fastest growing economy by 2013-15

Country

Publication Date: 
17/08/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Economy, Economic Development, Development, Globalisation, GDP
Governance And Institutions

Exploring the demand for new states

The increasing demand for new states raises a number of questions with regard to the well-being of India’s federal democratic polity. There are four measures that must be considered while devising any framework to address the issue of federal
reorganisation. These are: the constitution of a permanent State Reorganisation Commission, amendment of the Constitution to
ensure that the demand for a new state emanates from the state legislature and not at the centre, examination of economic and

Publication Date: 
14/08/2010
Ashutosh Kumar
Economic and Political Weekly
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3
15-18
Tags:
Governance And Institutions, India, Economic Development, Politics, Conflicts, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Chhattisgarh
Economy

Survey for Economic Census

Publication Date: 
05/08/2010
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Economy, Economic Development, Development, Aizawl (D), Mizoram, Census/ Habitat Monitoring
Environment

Measuring the environmental impacts of changing trade patterns on the poor

It is an empirical fact that it is very difficult to balance economic growth, poverty reduction, and environment protection, particularly for developing and transitional economies.

Publication Date: 
31/07/2010
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Kaliappa Kalirajan, Kanhaiya Singh
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Environment, Poverty, Economic Development, Developing Countries, Environment Management, India, Climate Change, Asia, Energy, Land Use, Forests, Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide, Vehicular Pollution, Trade
Economy

The impact of the global economic crisis on the budgets of low-income countries

This report examines the impact of the global financial crisis
on the budgets of low-income countries, especially their spending to
reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Publication Date: 
28/07/2010
Katerina Kyrili, Matthew Martin
Oxfam International
Tags:
Economy, Economic Development, Finance, Education, Poverty

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