Economic Development

The State Finance Commission, although a technical and quasijudicial constitutional entity like the Union Finance Commission, has to help local governments plan for economic development and deliver social justice and public services at the local level.

Publication Date:

24/07/2010

Author(s): M A Oommen

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

45

Issue:

30

pp:

39

Tags:

Economy, Economic Development, Political Decentralisation, Finance, Services, Governance, Panchayats, Gram Sabhas, India, Karnataka, West Bengal, Economic and Political Weekly, M A Oommen

Economy

India will be 3rd largest FDI recipient in 2010-12

UNCTAD estimates FDI flows worldwide to recover slightly

NEW DELHI: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Thursday said India would emerge as the third largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the three-year period ending 2012.

Publication Date:

23/07/2010

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Economy, Economic Development, India, Hindu (New Delhi)

Economy

CM weathers SEZ storm, for now!

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat today said that the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) which were not notified and scrapped will die a natural death in wake of the State withdrawing the SEZ Policy.
Replying to cut motions tabled by the Opposition in the House, Kamat said that the State had asked these SEZ companies to revert back the land allotted by the government.

Publication Date:

23/07/2010

Source: Herald (Panjim)

Tags:

Land Acquisition, Economy, Economic Development, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Goa, Herald (Panjim)

Economy

District to transform into an industrial hub1

Anantapur, July 20: Jubilant small and medium scale entrepreneurs came forward to set up various industries in Anantapur district, following state government

Publication Date:

21/07/2010

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Economy, Economic Development, Industry, Andhra Pradesh, Anantapur (D), Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)

Environment

Primary accumulation, capitalist nature and sustainability

The relationship between capital and nature gravitates towards a policy of primary accumulation. This article provides an analysis of the imposition of capitalist property rights over natural resources in India as processes of primary accumulation. These processes are evidenced by the construction of large dams and mines, in addition to the proliferation of free market environmentalism.

Publication Date:

17/07/2010

Author(s): Sirisha C Naidu, Panayiotis T Manolakos

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

45

Issue:

29

pp:

39

Tags:

Environment, Mining, Dams, Forest Rights Act 2006, Trade, Kyoto Protocol, Emissions Trading, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Carbon Sequestration, Economic Development, India, Economic and Political Weekly, Globalisation, Sirisha C Naidu, Panayiotis T Manolakos, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)

Economy

Banking on Inclusion

In a remote village of district Chamoli, Uttarakhand, farmer Hari Singh no longer needs to travel to the distant bank branch.

Publication Date:

11/07/2010

Author(s): Nivedita Mukherjee

Source: India Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Chamoli, Andhra Pradesh, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Ministry Of Rural Development, Insurance, Economic Development

Economy

The analytics of changing growth rates

A vast amount of research has asked how and why the growth rates in the Indian economy have risen in recent decades. Implicit in much of that literature is the belief that if the growth rate has increased it must be because something underlying has changed – had some parameters embedded in the “structure” of the economy not changed, the growth rate would have been constant.

Publication Date:

10/07/2010

Author(s): Amitava Bose, Subhasankar Chattopadhyay

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

45

Issue:

28

pp:

64

Tags:

Economy, Consumption Patterns, Economic Development, Unemployment, India

Economy

Kodagu gets Rs 1.5 crore for development works

The State government has released a sum of Rs 1.5 crore for Kodagu district to take up developmental projects in villages selected under first and third phase of Suvarna Gramodaya Yojana, for the year 2010-11.

Publication Date:

09/07/2010

Source: Deccan Herald (Bangalore)

Tags:

Development, Economy, Economic Development, Karnataka, Kodagu, Deccan Herald (Bangalore)