Report builds on outcomes of NITI Aayog's Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital — Education project in MP, Jharkhand & Odisha, to make recommendations for other states, UTs.
Five of Delhi’s 11 districts saw rise in multidimensional poverty between 2016 and 2021, shows NITI Aayog report. Share of education in city’s multidimensional poverty increased too.
Tamil Nadu has always been counted among India’s most industrialised states. Its rising profile as a destination for investments is credited by experts & officials to policy interventions.
NITI Aayog data shows multidimensional poverty dipped for state as whole but rose marginally in urban areas. Inability to steer state's economy away from agriculture played role.
While the future can’t be predicted, a dedicated institution that embraces future thinking may help ensure that India is not caught unprepared in case of any eventuality.
A Padma Bhushan awardee, Panagariya is the fourth chancellor of the university after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, former Singapore foreign minister George Yeo and computer scientist Vijay P Bhatkar.
By taking steps like setting up committees to monitor content quality of EdTech firm, the states are ensuring content is homogeneous across schools and aligns with SCERT textbooks.
There is a need for updated dataset on households' consumption patterns, increased frequency of surveys on households’ balance sheet, and to collect data on financial well-being.
Parameswaran Iyer will take over as the Executive Director of the World Bank for three years. He will replace Rajesh Khullar, a 1988-batch IAS officer.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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