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My data versus yours
It’s been often asked why our officialdom, with all the intellectual capital at its command, is unable to quantify the number of the really poor in India. Is this such a difficult thing to do? It is all the more baffling because in recent times, the debate on India’s poverty has only further confounded ordinary citizens.
09/09/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Waste processing industries to be promoted; Exit Policy for Sick Units
Madhya Pradesh will have Exit Policy for sick industries. In order to keep cities pollution-free, tehsil level waste processing industries would be encouraged for which special provisions would be made in the renewed Industry Policy.
09/09/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
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NAC in hurry, need more time:Rural ministry
A CONFLICT has risen between the National Advisory Council (NAC), chaired by Ms Sonia Gandhi, and the rural development ministry over the time-frame for completing the BPL census.
NAC members N C Saxena and Harsh Mander, in particular, want the head count to be completed by September 2011.
08/09/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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India Inc faces 2% CSR levy
Mandatory compliance will set firms back by over Rs 4,300 crore
Several Indian companies might have to set aside 2 per cent of their average net profits during the preceding three years to meet corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending requirements.
08/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Global trade grows, so do imbalances
Global goods trade in the first half of 2010 was about 25 percent higher than the same period of the year before, and the value of worldwide merchandise trade grew during the second quarter, according to new data from the WTO secretariat. But the volume of global trade remains well below the peaks reached in mid-2008 before the global financial and economic crisis.
Sep 2010
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
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Campaigners slam EU-India FTA talks
Ongoing free trade agreement talks between the EU and India have been “hijacked” by big business with potentially dire consequences for small farmers, fisherman, shop owners, and unions, two civil society campaign groups allege in a report.
Sep 2010
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
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PM seeks to bridge 2 Indias
‘Cannot solve problems by perpetuating poverty in the name of environment’.
Manmohan Singh The revival of economic growth at home, despite continued global concerns about deflation, testifies to the robustness of the Indian economy, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a conversation with newspaper editors here today.
The Prime Minister ruled out any hasty steps towards financial sector lib
07/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Drought clouds Nitish government’s good performance
DROUGHT usually means electoral defeat for incumbent governments. So does double-digit inflation.
07/09/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Rs.1,840 crore-Kuttanad Package launched
Dennis Marcus Mathew
ALAPPUZHA: The Rs.1,840 crore-Kuttanad Package, said to be among the largest financial packages sanctioned to a single region, was launched by Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan at the Mankombu Mini Civil Station here on Sunday.
The package to ensure overall development of the region and its people was designed by renowned agricultural scientist M.S.
06/09/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Green prosperity, anyone?
IN THE second decade of the 21st century, the environment has found an irredeemable place in the international economic discourse. It was not always like this.
06/09/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
