Human trafficking is a serious problem, with thousands of men, women and children being transported and exploited in their own countries and outside every year. India ranks among the worst countries in terms of its prevalence.
India faces the obligation to phase out its export incentives under the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, having breached the $1,000 gross national income (GNI) per capita.
The Russian government has confirmed that President Vladimir Putin will oversee the signing of the S-400 air defence system deal with India after his arrival. It is over $5-billion deal.
Although India has made sizeable economic and social gains over the last two decades, the challenge of maternal and child undernutrition remains a national public health concern and a policy priority for the current government.
The recent deaths of six sewerage workers in Delhi in two separate incidents form part of a continuing series of such deaths. The pressure of poverty forces these workers to descend almost bare-bodied into sewers full of filth and excreta, fully knowing that they may asphyxiate to death as have many others like them.
According to statistics released by the WTO in July, the share of India in total world merchandise exports was 1.68 per cent in 2017, a level it has more or less maintained since 2011. The preceding decade was better when India more than doubled its share from only 0.7 per cent in 2001 to 1.67 per cent in 2011.
NITI Aayog is supposed to be a think tank. This implies that while generating new ideas, it maintains a respectable intellectual distance from the government of the day. Instead, what we see is uncritical praise of government-sponsored, acronym-infested schemes.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which seeks to invest about $8 trillion in infrastructure projects across Asia, Europe and Africa, has come under intense scrutiny, not least due to suspicions over China’s intent behind the ambitious project.
Financial inclusion is a process that enables improved and better sustainable economic and social development of the country. It focuses on raising the standard of living of the underprivileged people in the society with the objective of making them self-sufficient and well informed to make better financial decisions.
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