Chairing a meeting of the full-time members of the Planning Commission, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the commission

NEW DELHI: Industries Minister Haroon Yusuf on Tuesday unveiled the much talked about new industrial policy for Delhi that covers all aspects of industrial development in the Capital. The revised policy comes more than two decades after the first one was published.

Even Bihar can get double-digit growth

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

NEW DELHI: The New Industrial Policy for Delhi, the first comprehensive policy to have come out after 1982, was on Monday approved by the Delhi Cabinet.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who chaired the meeting, said the new policy would promote hi-tech, knowledge-based and IT-based industries. It will be implemented from 2010 to 2021.

HOW does GDP growth translate into economic prosperity for households? Governance and inclusive growth are the two key terms that are finding more and more emphasis among policymakers today. State governments are beginning to realise that better governance cannot only determine their political fortunes but also has an impact on the economic well-being of their citizens.

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Adverse health effects of asbestos have prompted many countries to ban its use, but use and importation continues in many low income and developing countries. Le et al. studied the relationship between national economic development and asbestos use among 135 countries that used asbestos at any time during 19202003. Worldwide asbestos use data were obtained from the U.S.

Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth

India is poised at a very critical point in its history. It can go either way: become a leader not only in a political-economic sense but even in a cultural sense; or plunge in an upheaval that is externally or internally engineered.

This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-09 for environmental policies, focusing in particular on the example of action against climate change.

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