The Industrial and Investment Policy of Assam, 2014 that comes into effect from March 1 2014, has identified promotion of micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector as its priority area and would be in place for a period of five years. Read the text.

The Ministry of Finance has issued an Economic and Functional Classification of the Central Government Budget 2013-14. Since 1957-58, the Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance has been preparing an economic classification of the Central Government budgetary transactions to make the budget a more useful tool of economic analysis.

Focusing on the productivity of the agricultural sector to lift the incomes of smallholder farmers is one of the most direct routes to addressing rural poverty and India can raise farm yields by rebalancing investment and making targeted reforms in the agricultural sector says this new report by McKinsey Global Institute.

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.

Global Financial Development Report 2014 is the second in a new World Bank series. It contributes to financial sector policy debates, building on new data, surveys, research, and country experience, with emphasis on emerging markets and developing economies.

By 2025, almost half of the world’s biggest companies will probably be based in emerging markets, profoundly altering global competitive dynamics projects this new report by McKinsey Global Institute. It focuses on understanding the global landscape for large companies—and how it will be reshaped by the rise of thousands of new corporate giants based in the emerging world.

This is the fourth issue of the ILO’s report series: Global Estimates on Child Labour. The present report provides new global and regional estimates on child labour for the year 2012 and compares them with the previous estimates for 2000, 2004 and 2008. It is four years since the previous estimates.

The WIR 2013 presents the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and contains in-depth analysis of policy developments, investment prospects, and key emerging issues related to investment -- including financial flows via offshore centres, and divestments.