New Courses GS Pre & Mains NCERT CSAT for UPSC Crash course for Pre 2026Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-02-18 ‘POLICIES BIASED AGAINST RAINFED AGRICULTURE’ Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Major Crops, Cropping Patterns and various Agricultural Revolutions A new rainfed agriculture atlas released this week documents the policy biases that are making farming unviable. Three out of five farmers in India grow their crops using rainwater, instead…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-02-18 ‘POLICIES BIASED AGAINST RAINFED AGRICULTURE’ Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Major Crops, Cropping Patterns and various Agricultural Revolutions A new rainfed agriculture atlas released this week documents the policy biases that are making farming unviable. Three out of five farmers in India grow their crops using rainwater, instead…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-04-05 WHY A RATE CUT WON’T HELP LOWER LENDING RATES Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Issues relating to Growth & Development – Banking, NPAs and RBI Delay in norms:As final norms have not been issued, the new external benchmark scheme is not yet in place.V.V. Krishnan With the first…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-11-30 OPINION Relevant for: Indian Economy Topic: Issues relating to Growth & Development – Foreign capital, Foreign Trade & BoP This refers to the proposition that the devaluation of a country’s currency will lead to an improvement in its balance of trade with the rest of the world only if the…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-02 WHAT IS INFLATION TARGETING IN ECONOMICS Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Issues relating to Growth & Development – Inflation & Monetary Policy This refers to an approach to monetary policy where the primary mandate of a central bank is to manage the rate of price inflation in the…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-31 WHAT IS BEVERIDGE CURVE IN ECONOMICS? Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Issues Related to Poverty, Inclusion, Employment & Sustainable Development This refers to a graphical representation that shows the relationship between the unemployment rate (on the horizontal axis) and the job vacancy rate (on the vertical axis) in…
DetailsSource : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2018-12-12 OPINION Relevant for: Indian Economy Topic: Issues relating to Growth & Development – Industry & Services Sector Ministry of Commerce & Industry Vision of a New India – USD 5 Trillion Economy First ever agriculture export policy launched India shines in Ease of Doing Business Rankings Posted On: 11 DEC…
DetailsSource : www.indianexpress.com Date : 2019-01-29 NEXT STEP TO CLEAN FUEL Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Infrastructure: Energy incl. Renewable & Non-renewable Purnamita Dasgupta is with the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Katharina Michaelowa is at University of Zurich. Recently, there has been a considerable reduction in the prices of non-subsidised LPG cylinders. Unless…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-03 U.K. SINHA TO HEAD RBI PANEL ON MSME REVIVAL Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Issues relating to Growth & Development – Industry & Services Sector incl. MSMEs U.K. Sinha The RBI has appointed an eight-member expert committee headed by former SEBI chairman U.K. Sinha to comprehensively review and…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-12-10 OPINION Relevant for: Indian Economy Topic: Issues relating to Growth & Development – Capital Market & SEBI The world is flat is an international best-seller by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman. The title of the 2005 book was a smart take on the concept that the world should be a…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-12-27 OPINION Relevant for: Indian Economy Topic: Issues relating to Planning & Economic Reforms While there are many refreshing improvements in NITI Aayog’s ‘Strategy for New India @ 75’ from the erstwhile Planning Commission’s plans, there are also concerns about some of the strategies recommended. The intent to change the…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-18 THE PROBLEM IS JOBS, NOT WAGES Relevant for: Indian Economy | Topic: Issues Related to Poverty, Inclusion, Employment & Sustainable Development It is well established that India is staring at a massive jobs crisis. Every single survey points to jobs as the biggest issue concerning voters, especially the youth.…
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