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World Development Report 2024: India must focus on inclusive growth to escape ‘middle-income trap’
4 months, 2 weeks ago

World Development Report 2024: India must focus on inclusive growth to escape ‘middle-income trap’

Firstpost  

India may be a lower-middle-income economy, but quality development of human resources, proper skilling of youth, and support for research and development can help India ensure a better life for its people The report released on August 1 suggests that at the current pace, China could take more than 10 years, Indonesia could take 70 years, and India could take …

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Inequality report renews question on growth model
9 months ago

Inequality report renews question on growth model

New Indian Express  

India’s income and wealth inequality has touched historic peaks, making it one of the world’s most unequal countries, according to the World Inequality Lab’s new working paper. Authored by renowned economists including Nobel laureate Thomas Piketty, the report estimates the richest citizens, or the top 1 percent, own 40.1 percent of the country’s wealth and 22.6 percent of the total …

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Data | India’s health research is not aligned with its disease burden
1 year, 3 months ago

Data | India’s health research is not aligned with its disease burden

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significance of tailoring health research to the specific needs of individual countries. Chart 2A | The chart plots the relative disease burden against research efforts for neonatal conditions for the world, high-income countries, upper-middle income countries, India and lower income countries. Chart 2B | The chart plots the relative disease burden against research efforts …

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Let’s reflect on what’ll make India a developed country
2 years ago

Let’s reflect on what’ll make India a developed country

Live Mint  

During his recent United Nations General Assembly speech, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar told the world about India’s ambition to become a developed country by 2047, a century after the country’s independence. Usually, countries are considered developed based on the size of their GDP, and therefore the per capita income of their citizens, along with the presence of high-quality infrastructure. …

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Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise: U.N. report
2 years, 5 months ago

Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise: U.N. report

The Hindu  

The number of undernourished people in India has declined in the last 15 years to 224.3 million in 2019-2021, according to a U.N. report, which also said that there are more obese adults and anaemic women in the world’s second most populous country. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report, issued on July 6 by …

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Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise, finds UN report
2 years, 5 months ago

Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise, finds UN report

Firstpost  

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report was issued on Wednesday by UN agencies Food and Agriculture Organisation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, World Food Programme and the World Health Organisation United Nations: The number of undernourished people in India has declined in the last 15 years to 224.3 million in 2019-2021, according to …

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WHO calls for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September
3 years, 4 months ago

WHO calls for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September

CNN  

CNN — The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a news briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. While Tedros said he understood the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant, “we cannot and we should not accept …

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UK-India study flags death risk of brain injury treatment in new-born babies
3 years, 4 months ago

UK-India study flags death risk of brain injury treatment in new-born babies

Deccan Chronicle  

London: A procedure widely used to treat birth-related brain damage in new-born babies in low and middle income countries may increase the risk of death, a new study conducted largely in India reports here on Tuesday. “These data, from the HELIX trial, suggest therapeutic hypothermia, alongside high quality intensive care treatment, does not reduce the risk of brain injury or …

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December 16, 2020 coronavirus news
4 years ago

December 16, 2020 coronavirus news

CNN  

Just over half of all planned doses of coronavirus vaccines have been bought up by high-income countries such as the United States, Japan and Australia, which means as much as a quarter of the world’s population will be unable to get vaccinated until 2022, researchers reported Tuesday. These rich countries have pre-ordered close to 7.5 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines, …

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Global labour income estimated to have declined by $3.5 trillion in first 3 quarters of 2020: ILO
4 years, 2 months ago

Global labour income estimated to have declined by $3.5 trillion in first 3 quarters of 2020: ILO

The Hindu  

Global labour income is estimated to have declined by 10.7% or $3.5 trillion in the first three quarters of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Labour Organization said on Wednesday. “The devastating losses in working hours caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have brought a ‘massive’ drop in labour income for workers around the world,” the ILO said in …

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Generosity is the key to live longer
4 years, 3 months ago

Generosity is the key to live longer

Hindustan Times  

A new study published in the journal PNAS now suggests that humans that are generous or those who share more live longer. Societies in Western European countries share a lot and live long Sub-Saharan African countries such as Senegal share the lowest percentage of their lifetime income and have the highest mortality rate of all the countries studied. “Our analyses …

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