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anouska khambatta

Economy of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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policy economic india economy

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  • The economy of India is the eleventh largest economy in the world
  • India was under social democratic-based policies from 1947 to 1991.
  • Since 1991, continuing economic liberalisation has moved the country toward a market-based economy.
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  • A revival of economic reforms and better economic policy in first decade of the 21st century accelerated India's economic growth rate
  • By 2008, India had established itself as the world's second-fastest growing major economy.
  • However, the year 2009 saw a significant slowdown in India's GDP growth rate to 6.8%[19] as well as the return of a large projected fiscal deficit of 6.8% of GDP which would be among the highest in the world.
  • Goldman Sachs has outlined 10 things that it needs to do in order to achieve its potential and grow 40 times by 2050
  • Improve Governance Raise Educational Achievement Increase Quality and Quantity of Universities Control Inflation Introduce a Credible Fiscal Policy Liberalize Financial Markets Increase Trade with Neighbours Increase Agricultural Productivity Improve Infrastructure Improve Environmental Quality.
  • However the subsequent government policy of fabian socialism hampered the benefits of the economy leading to high fiscal deficits and a worsening current account.
  • ince 1990 India has a free-market economy and emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in the developing world; during this period, the economy has grown constantly, but with a few major setbacks. This has been accompanied by increases in life expectancy, literacy rates and food security.
  • India is often seen by most economists as a rising economic superpower and is believed to play a major role in the global economy in the 21st century.
  • Policy tended towards protectionism
Ari Kewalramani

Abortion, Infanticide Foeticide India - 1 views

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Abortion India Son Preference

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  • According to a recent report
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      50 million females have been omitted from the population in India because of discrimination against women.
  • (UNICEF)
  • up to 50 million girls and women are missing from India' s population as a result of systematic gender discrimination in India.
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  • most countries
  • 105 female births for every 100 males.
  • less than 93 women for every 100 men
  • Much of the discrimination is to do with cultural beliefs and social norms
  • norms
  • be challenged if this practice is to stop.
  • ultrasound scanners
  • advertise
  • spend 600 rupees now and save 50,000 rupees later.
  • avoiding a girl,
  • ing a large dowry on the marriage of her daughte
  • a family will avoid pay
  • According to UNICEF
  • the problem is getting worse
  • scientific methods of detecting the sex of a baby and of performing abortions are improving.
  • increasing available in rural areas of India
  • fuelling fears
  • abortion of female foetuses is on the increase
anouska khambatta

The chief tenets and composition of the Indian Economic Policy - 0 views

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  • the government of India initiates various actions including preparing budget, setting interest rates
  • ational ownership, labor market, and several other economic areas where government intervention is required
  • internal factors like political beliefs and policies of the parties etc. that play pivotal roles in determining the economic policy of India
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  • influenced by various international institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
  • Five-Year Plans came into existence,
  • Milton Friedman later criticized their policy which concentrates on capital and technology-intensive heavy industry as well as subsidizing manual, low-skill cottage industry at the same time. According to Friedman, it would waste capital and labor and would slow down the growth of small manufacturers.
  • easing restrictions on capacity expansion, reduced corporate taxes and removed price controls
  • These led to enhancement in growth rate, which in turn led to high fiscal deficits and aggravating current account.
  • compelled India to face a major balance-of-payments crisis.
  • Foreign direct investments in a number of sectors started pouring in.
  • domestic and foreign investment import and export trade controls tax structure public and financial activities
anouska khambatta

India Economic Policy | Economy Watch - 1 views

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policy economic india

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  • relaxing its money supply activities
  • would be able to bear fruit provided other advanced economies of world are able to recover from aftereffects of global financial meltdown.
  • adopted an economic policy at India of borrowing.
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  • significant bearing on India’s economic policy
  • only led to increasing of financial deficit.
  • As per his observations, prime lending rates being charged by banks belonging to public sector were a bit higher than what is desirable in present circumstances.
  • economy would be moving towards a single goods and service tax by doing away with differences between rates of service taxes
  • INR 6,600 crores and for excise duties it would be INR 8,500 crores.
  • According to this India economic policy a significant amount of money would be lost as a result of these tax benefits – losses are expected to amount to INR 29,000 crores. Maximum amount of losses to tune of INR 14,000 crores
Harshil Asnani

Obesity on the rise in India, says Lancet - 0 views

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obesity india rise

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  • said emerging economies such as India, Brazil, China, Russia should take immediate steps to reverse the rising trend of various non-communicable diseases such as obesity.
  • India (obesity rates for women rose from 10.6 per cent to 12.6 per cent between 1998-99 and 2005-06).
Ari Kewalramani

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India sex selection doctor jailed - 0 views

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India Sex Selection Doctor Jailed

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  • Audio and video evidence showed the doctor telling one woman that tests had revealed that she was carrying a "female foetus and it would be taken care of".
  • But convictions are rare due to lax and corrupt officials and the slow judicial system.
  • Earlier this year researchers in India and Canada said in the Lancet journal that prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girl births a year.
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  • Indian doctors, however, disputed the report saying pre-birth gender checks had waned since a Supreme Court crackdown in 2001.
  • Experts in India say female foeticide is mostly linked to socio-economic factors.
Ari Kewalramani

Missing women of Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Missing Women Asia

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  • in the form of selective abortion and perhaps even infanticide and female infant neglect - that is the cause of the skewed gender ratio.[6]
  • If the first child was male, then the sex of the subsequent children tended to follow the regular, biologically determined sex pattern
  • However, if the first child was female, the subsequent children had a much higher probability of being male, indicating that conscious parental choice was involved in determining the sex of the child.
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  • preference for boys and the resulting shortage of girls was even more pronounced in the more highly developed Haryana and Punjab regions of India than in poorer areas,
  • high prevalence of this prejudice among the more educated and affluent women (mothers) there.
  • Only recently and in some countries (particularly South Korea) have the development and educational campaigns begun to turn the tide, resulting in more normal gender ratios.[9]
  • Punjab
  • 1980s, girls were not receiving inferior treatment if a girl was born as a first child in a given family, when the parents still had high hopes for obtaining a son later. Subsequent births of girls were however unwelcome, because each such birth diminished a chance of the family having a son.
  • educated women would have fewer offspring, and therefore were under more acute pressure to produce a son as early as possible
  • affluent families opt for an abortion
  • r if a girl is born
  • decrease her chance of survival
  • One reason for parents, even mothers, to avoid daughters
  • As parents grow
  • expect much more help and support from their independent sons, than from daughters, who after getting married become in a sense property of their husbands' families
  • Women are also often practically unable to inherit real estate, so a mother-widow will lose her family's (in reality her late husband's) plot of land and become indigent if she had had only daughters.
  • Poor rural families have meager resources to distribute among their children, which reduces the opportunity to discriminate against girls.[9]
  • South Korea has led to a sweeping change in social attitudes and reduced the preference for sons
  • rapid economic development, combined with policies that seek to promote gender equality
  • sex ratio transition
Harshil Asnani

Obesity statistics for India show rising obesity among kids, obese kids and adults in I... - 0 views

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obesity india statistics

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  • As many as 30 million Indians are overweight, and obesity continues rise, says statistics revealed by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS).
  • Around 20 per cent of school-going children are overweight,
  • Overweight or obesity is the leading cause of type 2 diabetes
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  • hypertension, osteoarthritis, various types of cancers in women like breast cancer and uterus cancer, menstrual disorder and infertility and many more diseases, according to experts.
  • Of the diabetic population in New Delhi already aware of their condition
Ari Kewalramani

EBSCOhost: India Confronts Gender-Selective Abortion - 0 views

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India Abortion Gender-Selective

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  • he Lancets stated that over the last 20 years there have been 10 million missing female births in India.
Ari Kewalramani

Sex-selective abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Sex Selective Abortion

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  • It has been argued that by having a one-child policy, China has increased the rate of abortion of female fetuses, thereby accelerating a demographic decline.
  • Baby Gender Mentor have become available for purchase over the Internet.[15] These tests have been criticized for making it easier to perform a sex-selective abortion earlier in a pregnancy.[16] Concerns have also been raised about their accuracy.
  • Gender bias can broadly impact a society, and it is estimated that by 2020 there could be more than 35 million young "surplus males" in China and 25 million in India
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  • In those families where the first two children were girls, the sex ratio of the third child was observed to be 1.51:1 in favor of boys.[
Ari Kewalramani

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India 'loses 10m female births' - 0 views

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India loses 10 m female births

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  • prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year.
  • 1998.
  • among educated women but did not vary according to religion.
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  • more common
  • 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls.
  • year 2001
  • They found that there was an increasing tendency to select boys when previous children had been girls
  • preceding child was a girl,
  • ratio of
  • girls to boy
  • 759 to 1,000.
  • fell even further when the two preceding children were both girls.
  • third child born
  • 719 girls to 1,000 boys.
  • for a child following the birth of a male child, the gender ratio was roughly equal.
  • suggested half a million girls were being lost each year.
  • an extra pair of hands on the farm.
  • inferior and a liability - a bride's dowry can cripple a poor family financially.
  • girl child
  • where boys
  • Ultrasound machines must be officially registered but many are now so light and portable, they are hard to monitor.
  • doctors
  • must not tell couples the sex of a foetus, in practice, some just use coded signals instead, our correspondent says.
Harshil Asnani

Fast food business in India - 0 views

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food fast business india

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  • McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Domino’s Pizza, and Nirula’s fast food chains have outlets in every nook and cranny of large cities
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should euthanasia be made legal in India? - 0 views

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euthanasia legal

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  • Euthanasia is self-imposed killing; it is a mercy killing, when there is not a slightest chance of endurance
  • Hence, from this perspective, keeping a patient under torment and unnecessary pain seems pointless. Therefore, in this case euthanasia is the most practical cure, and this is possible only if euthanasia is made legal in India.
  • When these patients want to give up their lives, they know deep within them that they are living on false hopes of survival and that there is not even a small ray of hope for further improvement.
anouska khambatta

Policy Watch - Existing and Proposed Economic Policy of India | Economy Watch - 0 views

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  • After the adoption of the new economic policy in India, the country has reviewed its policies and made it more friendly in almost all the sectors.
anouska khambatta

Comprehensive information on India Economic Policy and its chief objectives - 1 views

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  • Issues concerning economic policy, impact of the reforms on poverty, sectoral issues relating to agriculture, industry and infrastructure.
  • has cast off its protectionism image and became more liberal.
  • Agriculture. Industry. Licensing policy. Monetary policy. Fiscal policy. Commercial policy. Pricing policy.
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  • The India Economic Policy is adopted so far has given rich dividends.
anouska khambatta

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  • growing importance of Venture Capital as one of the sources of finance for Indian industry
  • has announced a policy governing the establishment of domestic Venture Capital Funds/Companies.
  • GUIDELINES FOR OVERSEAS VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN INDIA
Shumona Raha

Should Euthanasia be legalized in India? - 0 views

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euthanasia debate pain pros cons

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  • A painful disease is one in which the patient suffers unbearable and excruciating pain. A chronic disease is a long lasting one and an incurable disease is one whose cure has not been found till date.
  • The individual should have at least the right to choose a graceful death for himself. Why should he be allowed to keep suffering day and night?
  • a patient should be allowed to decide when he has suffered enough.
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  • After all as an individual, you decide where to marry, you decide where to work, and at the last hurdle of your life, you should be allowed to choose how do you want to end your life.
  • What if the patient is in coma and is unable to make a decision, should the relatives be allowed to make it?
  • Legalising voluntary Euthanasia would lead to involuntary euthanasia. In this society, full of greed and corruption anything is possible.
  • The Bible says, “Thou shalt not kill” And even Islam does not allow anyone to take away life.
  • We have cases, where doctors are often beaten up if the patient was not treated properly, what would happen to a doctor if he merely suggested Euthanasia to the relatives? Will the relatives be able to understand the suffering of the patient?
  • Some people feel we don’t choose when to be born and we should not be given the right to choose when to die.
  • On the contrary, others feel that a life of pain is not a life but an imposition and we should be at least allowed to end it in a dignified peaceful manner.
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