Full Coverage: Economy

29.01.2007 Eighty-four call centres across the country are answering farmersÂ’ queries related to everything from fungus on brinjals to kisan credit cards and prices of insecticides.

25.01.2007 50 Reasons to buy Fair Trade by Miles Litvinoff and John Madeley, published by Pluto Press, will be released on 26th February 2007 to mark the start of Fairtrade Fortnight 2007. Planned promotions include an author tour to Fairtrade Towns and an appearance at the Peak Literary Festival in the UK.

24.01.2007 The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historic high in 2006 despite strong global economic growth, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends released on Thursday. The report also said that south Asia faces growing gender employment gap and challenge of creating jobs.

22.01.2007 Primary education remains a major problem according to the government and civil society groups now say mother illiteracy remains the key to the problem.
It is the key finding of Pratham - a civil society group actively associated with the government's education policy.

22.01.2007 A different approach to politics, with mechanisms for society to define the kind of country it wants to build through the exercise of direct democracy, is the common purpose driving the social movements participating in the "Mutirao for a New Brazil."

15.01.2007 Admitting that the higher education system needs comprehensive reforms, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh said that the National Knowledge Commission should travel across the country with useful ideas to build a consensus.

11.01.2007 from saveyourchildren:
The Stern report on the economics of climate change has come, been commented on endlessly... and gone. But it shouldn't. Here's an update on the main conclusions which continue to need action.

08.01.2007 The Annual state of education report 2006-realased by planning commission chairperson, Montek Singh Ahluwalia-says little has improved in public school. The report also says children whose mothers are not educated are more likely to drop out from school and their learning ability is less. The report surveyed 3.18 lakh households across 90 percent districts in the economy

05.01.2007 If India and other developing countries "keep a broad vision of development," then globalisation would live up to the promises made "15-20 years ago," Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said.

02.01.2007 While Imported fruits reign the local market, several researchers started to develop local fruit resources, one of which is mangosteen, that recently has an increasing demand for export.