| PM to focus on 9% growth rate for next few yrs | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said his agenda for the next few years is to bring India's economy back to 9 per cent growth rate and ensure the benefits of development reach everyone. |
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| Missing: An employment plan | 19-NOV-09 |
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| A number of recent incidents, many of which pose a threat to social order, highlight the stress that the economy faces in terms of generating jobs for larger numbers of aspiring young people. Between 12 million and 15 million new jobs need to be generated each year to accommodate new entrants into the workforce, beyond the number needed to take care of the backlog of unemployed. Only a small fraction of those numbers is actually available, particularly in the organised sector. The recent demand by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) that the State Bank of India recruit only Marathi-speakers for 1,100 jobs being offered in the state is an acute reflection of the problem — as is the fact that people with post-graduate management degrees have been applying in large numbers for clerical jobs in banks. As in most large-scale recruitment programmes in the public sector these days, the number of applicants is almost 100 times the number of openings. |
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| M Govinda Rao: Regional development for inclusive growth | 06-OCT-09 |
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| The shift in focus towards inclusive growth in the Tenth Plan and increased emphasis on the same in the Eleventh Plan are important to ensure that the poor participate in the market activity and the growth process in a meaningful manner. However, the strategy has been mainly to provide this section with some measure of consumption security through various employment programmes and/or writing off farm loans. |
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| Subir Roy: Money alone can't buy inclusive growth | 08-JUL-09 |
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| The Union Budget gives the first clear indication of how willing and able the second avatar of the UPA government is in delivering inclusive growth. The signal is that it is willing, but it is a bit open if it will be able to. The willingness, putting your money where your mouth is, comes through in actions such as sharply hiking the allocation for the flagship employment guarantee programme, the rural health mission, rural roads and the urban renewal mission. |
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| Towards a sustained, inclusive growth | 07-JUL-09 |
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| There is no quick solution to India’s challenges and, as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, one budget would not do it. Consequently, the new government has focused on sustained growth while defending the economy against the global crisis, albeit at the cost of fiscal consolidation. |
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| Subir Gokarn: Life-cycle inclusion | 01-JUN-09 |
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| According to the UN Population Projections made in 2006, India will have a total population of 1.22 billion in 2010. Of this, 748 million will be in the age group of 15-59, which reflects the size of the labour force. |
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| Subir Roy: Hope for a new agenda | 27-MAY-09 |
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| Manmohan Singh’s second five-year term begins with four pluses. There is now the certainty of stability and continuity; a grain mountain ensures food security; the monsoon shows every sign of beginning well; and the worst of the economic slowdown that hit last year appears to be over. Hence expectations from the government will be high. |
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| Subir Roy: Emerging face of inclusive growth | 04-MAR-09 |
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| At the end of five years of UPA rule a contrast is emerging. Four years of record growth which brought India into international reckoning stand stymied in the last year by a global slowdown. But a solid body of unglamorous action seems to have been taken to address governance and the lot of those at the grassroots, which can prove durable and make today’s actors look back with satisfaction. |
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| Budget shows govt focus on inclusive growth: PC | 16-FEB-09 |
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| Terming the Interim Budget as a reflection of UPA government's faith in "faster and more inclusive growth", Home Minister P Chidambaram today said the focus brought about unprecedented development since 2004-05 and helped in navigating the current global slowdown. |
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