The recently concluded Free Trade Agreement between India and the United Kingdom is expected to benefit both nations economically and could also pave the way for similar agreements with other countries such as the United States and the European Union, says a report by Bank of Baroda.- 10 days...
India's fast-growing retail segment is a pillar of the economy - accounting for 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) and 8% of jobs, according to Invest India, the country's investment promotion arm. In southern states including Tamil Nadu, big family-run chains dominate the jewellery, sar...
From just a few per cent of their GDP in Scandinavian countries, the wealth rises to 15% in Continental Europe, and to as much as 60% in Russia, Gulf states, and a number of Latin American countries. China has about $287 billion offshore wealth, which is 2.4% of their 2015 GDP. ...
(2019) investigated the ‘club convergence’ in income across 15 Indian states from 1982 to 2014 using the Markov chain and stochastic kernel approaches. They found that the club convergence in-state distribution and the convergence in GDP per capita re-established the idea of the “low-level ...
The subway trains are designed to run 102 km per hour and up to 129,000 km a year on regular maintenance for at least 30 years. The Chinese company also plans to tap markets in New York, Washington and other U.S. cities. It will set up a R&D base in the United States to promote...
growth. Presently, many states have started switching to e-buses and adopting a public-private partnership model, where the government pays bus operators per kilometer of service. E-buses will rise to 9% of the total bus fleet by 2026 and to 30% by 2030, accor...
Refugee Convention, which spells out refugee rights and states' responsibilities to protect them, nor does it have its own laws protecting refugees. Around 18,000 Rohingya lived in India as of early last year, according to Rohingya Human Rights Initiative co-founder Ali Johar. (Reporting by ...
Primarily, the use of HYV seeds was limited to a few states Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, but after the late 1970s, many other states also started benefitting from the use of HYV seeds and improved the agricultural production on their fields. Use of HYV seeds benefited farmers ...
intended to unite princely states and British India at the center, were not implemented because of ambiguities in safeguarding the existing privileges of princes. In February 1937, however, provincial autonomy became a reality when elections were held. The Congress emerged as the dominant party with...
Public procurement in India has been estimated to constitute about 30 per cent of GDP. Because there is no centralised green public procurement program, there are no estimates of the extent or impact of green public procurement. • Adopt low carbon and • Appropriate policies will drive near...