The French President Emmanuel Macron will be accompanied by a team of businessmen and French officials during his trip to India. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the goal of this visit is to strengthen the bilateral economic, political and strategic ties. The relationship ...
Women and girls in the developing world are often denied opportunities for education, which limits their prospects and decreases family income. It leads to high risk of trafficking and exploitation. This also limits the economic advancement of the entire country. But in many cases, studies have reve...
Agriculture and the rural economy was the first subject on which the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley focused in his budget speech. He outlined a slew of measures to boost agricultural production and the rural economy, announcing new projects as well as enhanced support for existing schemes to th...
AgricultureGrowth of the sectorThe Economic Survey of 2016-17, was tabled in Parliament on January 31, 2017. The Survey forecasted a growth rate of 6.75 to 7.5% for FY18, as compared to the expected growth rate of 6.5% in FY17. Over the medium run, the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (G...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has initiated the process of becoming the world leader at Davos. According to him, since Donald Trump started to put America first, there has been a vacuum in the global leadership. Modi highlighted three main challenges confronting the post-Cold War global ...
The primary goal is making India global manufacturing hub, by encouraging both multinational as well as domestic companies to manufacture their products within the country. It also seeks to facilitate job creation, foster innovation, enhance skill development and protect intellectual property. The l...
The ‘Make in India’ initiative indicates a shift in the way government agencies interact with various industries. It will focus on acting as a partner in the economic development alongside the corporate sector.Prime Minister Modi stated the motive to launch the ‘Make in India’ initiative ver...
It is often the case in India that big entrepreneurs do business with the help of public money borrowed from banks and other financial institutions. They expand their business, borrow again and use it for some other businesses. Their names feature in the list of top billionaires but when it comes to...
Food waste has become a complex phenomenon attracting the attention of scientists, consumers and activists alike. The fact that emphasis is given to increasing agricultural produce and then a third of all the food produced ends up as waste is being termed as a global paradox.CAUSESLack of appropriat...
The world produces enough to feed its entire global population of around seven billion people. And yet, one person in eight goes to bed hungry each night. Worldwide, the number of hungry people has dropped significantly over the past two decades but still around 795 million people continue to strugg...