Issues concerning economic policy, impact of the reforms on poverty, sectoral issues relating to agriculture, industry and infrastructure.
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Comprehensive information on India Economic Policy and its chief objectives - 1 views
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Agriculture. Industry. Licensing policy. Monetary policy. Fiscal policy. Commercial policy. Pricing policy.
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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
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ational ownership, labor market, and several other economic areas where government intervention is required
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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
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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.
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These led to enhancement in growth rate, which in turn led to high fiscal deficits and aggravating current account.
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domestic and foreign investment import and export trade controls tax structure public and financial activities
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Economy of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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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
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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.
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Goldman Sachs has outlined 10 things that it needs to do in order to achieve its potential and grow 40 times by 2050
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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.
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However the subsequent government policy of fabian socialism hampered the benefits of the economy leading to high fiscal deficits and a worsening current account.
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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.
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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.
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India Economic Policy | Economy Watch - 1 views
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would be able to bear fruit provided other advanced economies of world are able to recover from aftereffects of global financial meltdown.
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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.
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economy would be moving towards a single goods and service tax by doing away with differences between rates of service taxes
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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
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Rethinking American Foreign Aid - US Foreign Aid - 0 views
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zSB(3,3)Sponsored Links World Affairs DailyGlobal Headline News & Commentary from International Media Sourceswww.worldaffairsjournal.org Winter Programme on UNGeneva Winter Programme on the UN and International Developmentgraduateinstitute.ch/winter The Progressive Realista metablog about American foreign policywww.progressiverealist.org zob();if(zsForeign Policy Ads Budget Foreign Aid Foreign Policy Congress Federal Budget US Government Budget zSB(3,2);if(zsSponsored Links Life Experience DegreesNo attendance - No coursework Accelerated - Worldwide Shipmentwww.universityofdublin.org 16th Int'l Education Expo660 Exhibitors from 25 Countries Why not Check Now & Meet Yours?www.cieet.com January 10, 2008 America's foreign aid programs are controversial
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Others are concerned that our foreign aid falls far short of the global commitments made in the Millennium Development Goals.
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And yet others say Western foreign assistance is focused more on "giving a man a fish" than on "teaching a man to fish."
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The State Department budget plus all the foreign aid totals less than $40 billion (which is less than 1.5% of the federal budget). But Defense Department spending for this year, plus maintenance of America's nuclear arsenal, plus the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
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Indian Economic Policies - The Role - 0 views
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Reforms include currency devaluations and making currency partially convertible, reduced quantitative restrictions on imports, reduced import duties on capital goods, decreases in subsidies, liberalized interest rates, abolition of licenses for most industries, the sale of shares in selected public enterprises, and tax reforms.
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these changes would create more problems than they solved
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In early 1995, official charges of serving adulterated products were made against a KFC outlet in Bangalore, and Pepsi-Cola products were smashed and advertisements defaced in New Delhi. The most serious backlash occurred in Maharashtra in August 1995 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP--Indian People's Party)-led state government halted construction of a US$2.8 million 2,015-megawatt gas-fired electric-power plant being built near Bombay (Mumbai in the Marathi language) by another United States company, Enron Corporation.
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Early Policy Developments India
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Policy Watch - Existing and Proposed Economic Policy of India | Economy Watch - 0 views
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MALAYSIA, THE BUMIPUTRA POLICY, AND FOREIGN INVESTORS: AN EVALUATION. - Powered by Goog... - 0 views
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Ten myths of Indian economic policy - Rediff.com Business - 0 views
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The move to a Goods and Services Tax will reduce the burden of taxation. I hope not! Or the already massive fiscal deficit will soar higher.
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The exchange rate only matters to exporters. This is a common misperception, even among trained economists.
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Reducing fiscal deficits hurts growth. In the present "stimulated" environment, there is much anxiety that a reduction in the current record high fiscal deficits (over 10 per cent of GDP) will hurt growth.
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Subsidies on food, fuel and electricity mainly help the poor. Not so. The food subsidy mainly helps better-off farmers and consumers in only four or five states where the public distribution system has effective coverage.
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Foreign capital inflows are always good for our economy. Twenty years ago, most Indians believed the opposite, that all private foreign capital inflows were bad and somehow designed to impoverish us.
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Private provision of infrastructure can effectively substitute for government. Private public partnerships (PPPs) are the ruling mantra of the day. Since the government has failed badly in providing adequate power, roads, ports, water, sanitation and so forth, we must turn to PPPs for our deliverance.
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The trader (or middle man) is at the root of many of our economic problems. This is one of our really hoary and hairy myths. Whenever the rate of inflation rises, governments blame rapacious traders and deploy regulations to control their stocking and other activities.
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White House report says people cause global warming - 27 August 2004 - New Scientist - 0 views
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People are responsible for the spike in global warming in the last 30 years, says a new US government report.
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The document reports that global warming in the first half of the 20th century, estimated at 0.2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, "was likely due to natural climate variation", including increased solar activity.
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"This research will help decision makers and managers in the US and other countries evaluate and respond to climate change."
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Sex-selective abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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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.
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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.
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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.[
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EBSCOhost: Obama at UN summit: foreign aid is 'core pillar of American power' - 1 views
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development and foreign assistance are for the first time elevated to the level of key factors in US national security and economic policy.
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Aid Needs Help - By Raymond Offenheiser | Foreign Policy - 1 views
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confused and conflicting responsibilities, mandates and authorities, with no clear goals, and no shared vision.
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responsibility for U.S. aid is shared between 11 different government agencies, each with different agendas and sometimes conflicting priorities.
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United States collects several times the amount in tariffs than it provides in development assistance, essentially taxing the very trade U.S. leaders tout as the solution to poverty
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Cambodia, government officials typically find it easier to get information on aid resources from the Chinese government than from the U.S. government
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humanitarian aid efforts has been promised -- two separate USAID contractors recently discovered by chance they were doing virtually the same project, in the same town.
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But his. government is still trying to address this 21st-century challenge with a 20th-century toolkit.
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The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 integrates 140 different goals and priorities and 400 directives, and is executed by at least 12 departments, 25 different agencies, and almost 60 government offices. Moreover, successive presidents and congresses have often chosen to work around the act, enacting more than 20 additional pieces of legislation to achieve their foreign-aid goals. As a result, the existing system's mission has become muddled and confused, cluttered with earmarks, special coordinators, and loopholes.
EBSCOhost: HEALING PEOPLE, PART I: India on less than $30 a Year. - 0 views
Affirmative action: Bad for growth? - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com - 0 views
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Missing women of Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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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]
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If the first child was male, then the sex of the subsequent children tended to follow the regular, biologically determined sex pattern
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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,
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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]
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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.
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educated women would have fewer offspring, and therefore were under more acute pressure to produce a son as early as possible
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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
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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.
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Poor rural families have meager resources to distribute among their children, which reduces the opportunity to discriminate against girls.[9]
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The Debate over Foreign Aid - Council on Foreign Relations - 0 views
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-$14.6 billion--for global challenges like health, food security, climate change, and humanitarian assistance.
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structural shifts to reach those goals, including aligning foreign assistance more closely with foreign policy objectives, demanding greater accountability from recipient governments, and delivering more "bang for the buck" by increasing cross-agency cooperation, streamlining delivery of goods and services, and reducing U.S. government redundancies.
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In fact, $14.6 billion for the abovementioned global challenges amounts to a mere .38 percent of the $3.8 trillion federal budget.
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The problem is that polls show that Americans actually believe that spending on overseas health, development, and humanitarian and anti-poverty programs is 15 to 20 percent of the national budget. In fact, spending has never exceeded 0.5 percent.
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World Bank estimates show backward movement on key health and development targets since the onset of the economic crisis.
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2. Will the Obama administration's structural reorganization of foreign assistance achieve the administration's, or Congress', goals?