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India elected to UN Statistical Commission for four-year periodIndia was elected by secret ballot while Argentina, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Ukraine, the United Republic of Tanzania and the United States ...
Global renewables capacity grew by record 10% last year-IRENAIRENA's annual report on renewable energy statistics said global renewable energy capacity amounted to 3,372 gigawatts (GW) at the end of l...
Celebrating World Statistics Day: October 20India joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Statistics Day on October 20. To define statistics, we should understand that a signif...
China considers new actions to lift flagging birthrateFor decades, China enforced strict controls on additional births in the name of preserving scarce resources for its burgeoning economy. But...
India retains position as third largest economy in PPP, global actual Individual consumption, capital formationThe findings are part of the World Bank new PPPs for reference year 2017, under the International Comparison Programme that adjust for diff...
India need not seek solace in China's growth slowdown: ExpertsIndia need not seek solace in China's economic growth slowing to a three-decade low of 6.1 per cent despite impacted by trade war with the ...
India needs continued structural reforms to boost growth: UN reportThe report has also lowered GDP growth estimate for India while expressing hope that combination of fiscal stimulus and financial sector re...
View: We should treat the latest GDP statistics as unfudgedStatistics should be assumed to be unfudged and innocent until proved guilty.
Ensure 100 per cent utilisation of MPLAD funds: CIC to legislatureThe commission had in 2013 declared six political parties -- BJP, Congress, CPI(M), CPI, BSP and NCP -- as public authorities answerable un...
China set to advocate 'one couple, two children' policyIn order to implement the decision, the top legislature must amend the family planning law which took effect in 2002.
UNICEF Rapid Survey on Children commissioned in November 2013: Women and Child Development MinistryThe key objective of the survey was to assess the situation of children and women in the country with special emphasis on access and utilis...
The Planning Commission must be replacedThe Planning Commission may be dead, with the adjective consciously excised. But there are reasons one needs a replacement.
'90s' liberalism triggered decline of planning eraThe Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 as an executive arm of the Union government and was chaired by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, th...
- NSC points finger at states for IIP volatility
The National Statistical Commission has suggested a way forward for continuous updation of weights of items in index to make it more effect...
- Inflation still negative despite fuel rise; food shows mixed trend
Inflation rose marginally to (-)1.2% for the week ended July 4 against (-)1.55% in the previous week mainly due to higher prices of fuel it...
- 'Urbanisation in Asia-Pacific region also driving poverty'
The pace of urbanisation in Asia and the Pacific unparalleled by any other region in the world has resulted in growth but has also driven u...
- Drop in poverty in Asia, inequality on rise
Economic growth has lifted millions out of extreme poverty, but there is rise in income inequality, says UN report.