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Insights into Editorial: Make planning fashionable again

Insights into Editorial: Make planning fashionable again     Background on Planned Economy: A planned economy is a type of economic system where investment and the allocation of capital goods take place according to economy-wide economic and production plans. A planned economy may use centralized, decentralized or participatory forms of economic planning. India under Nehru’s …

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Insights into Editorial: Without maternity benefits

Insights into Editorial: Without maternity benefits Introduction: Under – nutrition continues to adversely affect majority of women in India. In India, every third woman is undernourished and every second woman is anaemic. An undernourished mother almost inevitably gives birth to a low birth weight baby. When poor nutrition starts in utero, it extends throughout the …

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Insights into Editorial: India ease of doing business rank jumps 23 places to 77 in World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 survey

Insights into Editorial: India ease of doing business rank jumps 23 places to 77 in World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 survey Context: India’s rank in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2019 survey climbed 23 places to 77 among 190 countries surveyed, making it the only country to rank among the top 10 improvers …

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Insights into Editorial: Support for lives on the move

Insights into Editorial: Support for lives on the move Introduction: Internal Migration in India: Internal migration can be driven by push and/or pull factors. In India, over the recent decades, agrarian distress (a push factor) and an increase in better-paying jobs in urban areas (a pull factor) have been drivers of internal migration. The Economic …

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Insights into Editorial: The unifier of modern India

Insights into Editorial: The unifier of modern India   Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Statue of Unity – the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, in Gujarat’s Kevadiya, on Patel’s birth anniversary. He became one of the most influential leaders in Gujarat as he organised the peasants of Kheda, Borsad, and Bardoli …

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