MEASURING SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN INDIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Measuring Economic Progress
Economists have been inquiring into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations for centuries,1 but the regular and systematic construction of official quantitative measures of relative economic progress is a phenomenon of recent decades. A key role in this transformation was played by Colin Clark, who held that ‘[c]omparisons of economic welfare between one community and another, one econom...
متن کاملSocio-economic burden of diabetes in India.
T 2 diabetes is the commonest form of diabetes constituting 90% of the diabetic population in any country. The global prevalence of diabetes is estimated to increase, from 4% in 1995 to 5.4% by the year 2025.1 The countries with the largest number of diabetic subjects are, and will be India, China and U.S. and in the former two countries diabetes occurs mostly in the age range of 45-64 yrs, in ...
متن کاملSocio-economic Dimensions of Globalization in India
Introduction: After Independence, the managers of the Indian economy took very cautious steps. They found the world sharply divided into two blocs: the one led by the capitalist economies (the US in particular) and other led by the communist economies, primarily the then USSR. There was a cold war between these two blocs. Lessdeveloped economies had no option than to join either of the two and ...
متن کاملDiscussion of Measuring Economic Progress
One of the strongest motives in life is the desire to ‘keep up with the Joneses’. In economic debate, this tendency is reflected in a concern with international rankings of various kinds. These rankings are frequently used to bolster a variety of spurious arguments. A typical form of the argument is ‘Australia has declined relative to country X on scale Y, and we should therefore adopt policy Z...
متن کاملPublic health in India: issues and challenges.
Health is determined not only by medical care but also by determinants outside the medical sector. Public health approach is to deal with all these determinants of health which requires multi sectoral collaboration and inter-disciplinary coordination. Although there have been major improvements in public health since 1950s, India is passing through demographic and environmental transition which...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista Galega de Economía
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2255-5951,1132-2799
DOI: 10.15304/rge.25.2.3742