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What is climate finance? Climate financerefers to local, national or transnational financing—drawn from public, private and alternative sources of financing—that seeks to support mitigation and adaptation actions to address climate change. The Convention (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement call for financial assistance from Parties with more financial resources to those that are… Continue reading Climate Finance

Roads are the arteries through which the economy sustains. Roads link producers to markets, workers to jobs, students to school, and the sick to hospitals, hence are vital to any development agenda. However, roads can only contribute if they are safe for commuters and government’s main thrust of accident prevention and control has been on… Continue reading Road Safety: Importance, challenges and solutions

News: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has advocated a need for an amendment to the Anti-Defection Law, setting a specific timeframe for disposing of defection cases. What is Anti-Defection Law? The Tenth Schedule — popularly known as the Anti-Defection Act — was included in the Constitution in 1985 via the 52nd Amendment Act, 1985. The… Continue reading Anti Defection Law

Context- In the context of recently releasedthe Global Nutrition Report 2018, we shall analyse the status of nutrition in India in this article. Fast Facts: Indiasuffers from twin-problem of under-nutrition and obesity. Malnutrition is more common in India than in sub-Saharan African countries where per capita income is much lower than that of Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar,… Continue reading Nutrition in India

Urban forestry: Urban forestry is the art and science of managing trees and forest resources in and around urban community ecosystems for availing physiological, sociological, economic and aesthetic benefits trees provide for society. Urban Forestry concentrates on all tree-dominated as well as other green resources in and around urban areas, such as woodlands, public and… Continue reading Social forestry, Agro-forestry and Urban forestry: An Overview

Context: Three years after the shift to the new base year of 2011-12, the CSO and NITI Aayog jointly released the back series GDP data detailing growth numbers for 2004-05 to 2011-12. GDP calculation process and Central Statistical Office Introduction of GVA at basic prices in India In India, GDP is estimated by Central Statistical Office… Continue reading Overview of GDP back series data

About: The G20, or Group of 20, is main international forum for economic, financial and political cooperation which addresses major global challenges and seeks to generate public policies that resolve them. Formed in 1999, as an inclusive forum of finance ministers and central bank presidents in response to currency crisis of late 1990s that especially hit Southeast Asia and Russia.… Continue reading G-20 An Overview

News: Qatar decides to withdraw from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from January 2019 Reasons for withdrawal: OPEC mainly governs oil production of its members and influences global oil prices, but oil plays a small role in Qatar’s economy, which now wants to focus on liquefied natural gas (LNG) development, which is… Continue reading Qatar to withdraw from OPEC

Healthcare in India Healthcare in India is largely underpenetrated, with government expenditure at around 25% of the GDP and an underperforming public healthcare ecosystem. Problem of 3A’s– refer to the figure Dual disease burden: Even as the incidence of lifestyle diseases is steadily on the rise, a vast majority of rural and poor patients still… Continue reading Ayushman Bharat- National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM)

News:Thousands of farmers and agricultural workers marched towards the parliament recently to demand debt waivers and higher crop prices, highlighting the acute farm distress. Facts: Agriculture grew at meagre 2.1% when national GDP grew at 6.5% in 2017-18 Contribution of agricultural output in total GVA is one third Agriculture share in economy has fallen from… Continue reading Farm Distress:An analysis