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The Columbia encyclopedia of modern ... - Google Books - 0 views

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Ten myths of Indian economic policy - Rediff.com Business - 0 views

  • Higher minimum support prices for foodgrains are good for farmers. Not so.
  • 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.
  • There is no role for monetary policy when inflation is driven by supply shortfalls. Not quite.
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  • Our labour laws protect labour. Quite the opposite
  • The exchange rate only matters to exporters. This is a common misperception, even among trained economists.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
anouska khambatta

Implementation of New Economic Policy to Indian economy in 1991 | MBA Knowledge Base - 0 views

  • Globalization means flow capital (finance in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI), technology, human resource, goods and service among countries. FDI is investment in real assets like automobile, consumer goods production, service sectors like insurance, telecommunication, air transport etc. Liberalisation means freeing the economic activities and business from unnecessary bureaucratic and other controls imposed by the governments. Privatisation or Disinvestment: Selling the government owned public sector enterprises to private industrialists and opening the government operating sectors for private investment.
  • The Major areas of  New Economic Policy 1991 are Fiscal policy reforms Monetary policy reform Pricing policy reform External policy reform Industrial policy reform Foreign investment policy reform Trade policy reform Public sector policy reform
anouska khambatta

Indian Economic Policies - The Role - 0 views

  • Since 1991 more "new economic policies" or reforms have been introduced.
  • 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.
  • faster growth rate of the economy
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  • these changes would create more problems than they solved
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      This is important as it states that when it changed more problems were to be created.
  • The pace of liberalization increased after 1991
  • 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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      This is a negative point of view. It shows how things were stopped due to policies.
  • Early Policy Developments India
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      The first few paragrapghs are about the early years in which the economic policy was being developed.
anouska khambatta

Highlight Economic Policies - 0 views

  • 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
anouska khambatta

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

  • 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

India Economic Policy | Economy Watch - 1 views

  • 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
anouska khambatta

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

  • 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
Puja DeGamia

BBC NEWS | Europe | France targets anorexia in media - 0 views

  • The bill targets pro-anorexia websites
  • The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness.
  • nd publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.
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  • It will affect websites, fashion houses, magazines and advertisers.
  • those found to have encouraged severe weight loss could be fined up to 45,000 euros and face three years in prison.
  • "Encouraging young girls to lie to their doctors, advising them on foods that are easier to regurgitate and inciting them to beat themselves up each time they eat is not freedom of expression," Ms Bachelot told the assembly.
  • It is necessary because we know now that we have a risk to some part of the population, young girls, who are pressed by different types of lobbies and the risk is increasing."
  • he law could also affect the fashion industry and magazine editors who publish photographs of extremely thin models.
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  • he BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says that with 40,000 anorexics in France, many parliamentarians feel the law cannot come soon enough.
anouska khambatta

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

  • 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.
Puja DeGamia

Media, Eating Disorders and Girls: Focusing on Appearance Alone is Not Healthy for Girls - 1 views

  • There is enormous pressure from the media on young girls to be thin.
  • Models can be seen everywhere with their skeleton frames sticking out suggesting this is the body image one should strive for.
  • Eating disorders are so common in models that it seems to get glamorized to young girls.
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  • “15% of young women have some kind of disordered eating patterns.” (Random House, eating disorder
  • The media reinforces this standard by promoting dolls like barbies which no girl or woman could ever seriously look like.
  • he proportions are all wrong and the measurements when converted to full size are freakishly absurd.
  • Girls and teenagers are self conscious enough about their body image without being bombarded with air brushed perfection which sometimes borders on looking cartoon like with their lack of blemishes and freckles.
  • Young girls are starting to diet at younger ages and exposure from the media promoting beauty contests doesn't help this.
  • There has been some progress on the promotion of ultra thin models and in some place they've been banned.
Puja DeGamia

Debate: Portrayal of women in mass media - Debatepedia - 0 views

  • A big part of media audience consists of teenagers, who are particularly vulnerable
  • This is because the mentality of young people is in the process of formation.
  • The impact of media on the morality of the younger generation can affect the future of our society negatively.
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  • Women are portrayed as perfect models. Although very often "Photoshop-edited",
  • hile stressing the importance of being slim. This leads in consequence to "promotion of anorexia", which is clearly undesirable.
  • Many girls idolize models and feel the need to mirror their thinness.
  • Models of a very low weight are setting bad examples to these girls
  • can be held responsible for the increasing number of girls with eating disorders
  • The fashion industry is not to blame for eating disorders. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses and are not simply triggered by models and images of thin people.
Yasmin Tandon

Aid Needs Help - By Raymond Offenheiser | Foreign Policy - 1 views

  • confused and conflicting responsibilities, mandates and authorities, with no clear goals, and no shared vision.
  • very real costs for U.S. foreign policy and the world's poor.
  • El Salvador,
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  • responsibility for U.S. aid is shared between 11 different government agencies, each with different agendas and sometimes conflicting priorities.
  • Kenya,
  • United States procures its own HIV/AIDS test kits a
  • AIDS drugs at four times the cost other donors pay
  • Bangladesh
  • 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
  • Cambodia, government officials typically find it easier to get information on aid resources from the Chinese government than from the U.S. government
  • Afghanistan -
  • civilian surge
  • 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.
  • 2 billion people -
  • trapped in poverty poses a singular challenge to the interests and values of the United State
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  • But his. government is still trying to address this 21st-century challenge with a 20th-century toolkit.
  • Previous attempts to reform the aid system have only complicated the situation.
  • 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.
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