The Central Statistics Office (CSO) of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation announced that the new series of Consumer Price Index(CPI) numbers for Rural, Urban and Combined (Rural +Urban) on base 2010 ( January to December)=100 taking all segments of rural and urban population for the month of January, 2011 will be released by the Central Statistics Office for the States/UTs and all- India on 18th February, 2011.These indices will be available for five major groups namely Food, beverages and tobacco; Fuel and light; Housing; Clothing, bedding and footwear, and Miscellaneous.
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Micro, Small and Medium enterprises
Importance of micro, small and medium enterprises
- Apart from playing a significant role in meeting national objectives of balanced growth, poverty alleviation and equity promotion, serve as nurseries for corporate enterprises of future.
Land reforms
- In rural India, land is the single most important productive asset owned by the people
Why are land reforms needed?
Infrastructure Debt Funds
Infrastructure Debt Funds
- In Sept 2011, RBI issued guidelines for permitting banks and NBFCs to set up IDFs to help meet long term financing for the sector
- IDFs would be set up either as MFs or NBFCs
- NBFC sponsoring IDF-MF should have a minimum net owned funds of Rs 300 crore and CAR of 15 percent
- Besides, its NPAs should be less than 3% of net advances and the NBFCs should have been in existence for at least five years and earning profits for the last three years
- Banks and NBFCs would be eligible to sponsor IDFs as mutual funds with prior approval of the RBI
- SEBI has amended the Mutual Funds Regulations to provide regulatory framework for IDF-MFs
- Banks acting as sponsors to IDF-MFs would be subject to existing prudential limits including limits on investments in financial services companies and limits on capital market exposure
Poverty and Unemployment
Assessment of the growth experience: Poverty and Unemployment
- Poverty and unemployment are closely related
- High poverty has a multiplier effect on quality of life, deprivation, malnutrition, illiteracy and low human resource development.
World Trade Organization
Contents
- What is WTO? Structure? Agreeements?
- Rounds of WTO
- Doha Development Round
- India’s role in WTO
- India’s proposals to WTO
- Trade in Goods
- Agriculture
- NAMA
- Rules
- SPS
- TBT
- Trade in Services
- GATS
- Intellectual Property (TRIPS)
- TRIMS
- Dispute settlement
- Development
- Trade and Development
- Aid for Trade
- Special & Differential Treatment
- Environment
- Trade and Environment
- Trade facilitation
- Other issues
- E-Commerce
- Competition policy
- Investment
- Government Procurement
- Accession
Goods and Services Tax — GST
What is GST?
Goods and Services Tax — GST — is a comprehensive tax levy on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods and services at a national level.
growth models
Bring out the differences and similarities between endogenous growth models and exogenous growth models.
Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14
Highlights of Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14 |
Higher Support for Market and Product Diversification
1. Incentive schemes expanded by way of addition of new products and markets.