Udit Misra

GDP measures the monetary value of all goods and services produced within the domestic boundaries of a country within a timeframe (generally, a year). It is slightly different from the other commonly used statistic for national income — the GNP.

In his August 30, 2017 letter, Goyal asked the RBI to send a draft notification “incorporating the detailed operational modalities” of the proposed bonds within two weeks.

Anjali Bharadwaj of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information said this shows the “total lack of political will to open the Electoral Bond Scheme to public scrutiny and subject it to a robust process of deliberation”.

The RTI documents also show that over the 12 phases, just four cities accounted for 83 per cent of all electoral bonds by value.

India is ranked 44 in Nomura's Food Vulnerability Index (NFVI) that compiled the vulnerability of 110 countries in the world.

Morgan Stanley believes that while the “near term growth is expected to remain weak,” yet the “the triggers for a stronger growth are in place”.

Sudha Narayanan of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research tells The Indian Express the issues plaguing APMC Act.

The WPI inflation for October has touched a 40-month low. But retail inflation in the country for the same month has touched a 16-month high.

India's central bank has been cutting interest rates all year long in order to address the growth slowdown but with the latest retail inflation breaching RBI’s target level, the RBI might be forced to reconsider.

A negative interest means the instead of the bank paying you money to keep in the savings account, you pay the bank to do so. It also means that anyone can borrow money from the bank and pay back less than what they borrowed.

The SBI has rolled back its forecasts for India’s GDP growth for the current from 6.1% earlier to just 5% now. For the next financial year (2020-21), it expects GDP to grow by 6.2%.

Not signing the RCEP will likely result in India missing out on the regional and global value chains crisscrossing this region.

India was concerned that joining the RCEP trade pact could lead to Chinese goods flooding the Indian markets, and India's trade deficit ballooning against most of the RCEP members.

India’s labour productivity between 2016 and 2018 grew by just 3.7 per cent — a far cry from the annual growth of 14 per cent between 2004 and 2008

By youth, the study refers to people in the age group of 15 to 29 years of age. The total number of unemployed youth went up marginally from 8.9 million in 2004-05 to 9 million in 2011-12 but, has since shot up to 25.1 million in 2017-18.

The “total employment during 2011-12 and 2017-18 declined by 9 million”. Also,close to 2.6 million jobs were lost every year between 2011-12 and 2017-18.

A new study uses NSSO data to show that between 2004 and 2017, employment grew at less than half the rate of population growth; number of women and young people in jobs fell; rural employment stagnated.

Pork output, which has fallen sharply in the past 6 months, contributes 1% of China's GDP -- from an Indian perspective, in absolute numbers, that's roughly 70% of what the construction sector contributed to India's GDP.

The study looks at employment data from three comparable surveys of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO): The Employment-Unemployment Surveys of 2004-05 and 2011-12 and the Period Labour Force Survey of 2017-18.