Poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have a third of the world’s poor. According to a 2005 World Bank estimate‚ 42% of India falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day (PPP‚ in nominal terms 21.6 a day in urban areas and 14.3 in rural areas); having reduced from 60% in 1981.[1] According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005‚ down from 51.3% in 1977–1978‚ and 36% in
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SECTION IV Financing of Health in India F K. SUJATHA RAO SECRETARY NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MACROECONOMICS AND HEALTH‚ GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI E-MAIL: ksujatharao@hotmail.com S. SELVARAJU SOMIL NAGPAL somilnagpal@yahoo.com S. SAKTHIVEL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH‚ UNIVERSITY OF DELHI ENCLAVE‚ NORTH CAMPUS‚ DELHI 110007 E-MAIL: sakthivel327@hotmail.com INANCING IS THE MOST CRITICAL OF ALL DETERMINANTS OF A HEALTH SYSTEM. The nature of financing defines the structure‚ the behaviour
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INDIA and WOMEN Women empowerment is a moot subject. At earlier times‚ women got unprejudiced status with men. But the post-Vedic time was a difficult period when many were treated as slaves‚ a commodity earned by the man‚ a mode of produce kids. From the early twentieth century (national movement) their statuses have been slowly and gradually undergone changes. In this regard‚ we may mention the name of the English people. After then‚ independence of India‚ the constitutional makers and national
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Caves: A Look at E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India In E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India‚ the Marabar Caves occupy an important part of the plot. The purpose of this deserves exploration considering Forster entitles the entire second part of his novel to them. Are these caves symbolic of an exploration into one’s own subconscious? Could they be a physical representation of freedom from societal constraint? Perhaps they are meant to embody the enigma that India and the East present to the West? An exploration
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! Dear Reader‚ It gives me immense pleasure to introduce you to the Centre for WTO Studies‚ coinciding with the inaugural issue of our new bimonthly newsletter: “ India‚ WTO and Trade Issues”. The Centre for WTO Studies – WTO Centre in its shorter form – has indeed been functioning since November 2002 in the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade with the objective of providing research and analytical support to the Department of Commerce in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on identified issues
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Language for IBPS PO Exam 2012:Set- 2 Directions-(Q. 1-15) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words / phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. India is rushing headlong towards economic success and modernisation‚ counting on high tech industries such as information technology and biotechnology to propel the nation to prosperity. India’s recent announcement that it would no longer produce unlicensed
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Case Report 1. Haier in India: building presence in mass market beyond China 1. Why did Haier enter India? What did it plan to achieve in this new market? Haier entered the global markets and started an internationalization strategy in the 1990s. Starting from European countries including Italy‚ the United Kingdom‚ and France‚ it stretched over even to the Asian market and opened its first manufacturing facility in Indonesia. Although the first entrance into the Asian market was in 1996‚ it
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Air India plans a turnaround strategy without wage and job cuts After all the turbulence national air carrier Air India went through in the recent past‚ Arvind Jadhav‚ Chairman and Managing Director of the beleaguered airlines is now determined to have a positive balance sheet by 2014-15 and is ready with a turnaround strategy. Some of the key targets the national carrier has set for itself include achieving 25 million domestic and 15 million international passengers by 2015‚ 93% on-time punctuality
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Terrorism and India A Common definition of terrorism is the systematic use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political‚ religious‚ or ideological change.[1][2] Terrorism in India‚ according to the Home Ministry‚ poses a significant threat to the state. Terrorism in India is basically two types external and internal‚ external terrorism emerge from neighboring countries and internal terrorism emulates from religious or communal violence and Naxalite–Maoist
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA Introduction: Forster is a distinguished novelist both in modern English and world literature history. After the author’s two visits to India‚ the great novel A Passage to India (1924) was produced; it is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. In a word‚ it is a novel of cultural‚ social‚ psychological‚ and religious conflict arising mainly from clashes between India’s native population and British
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