Tuesday 22 May 2012 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead

Economy

India to get $4.3bn WB aid to fight poverty

The aid will be given through a new flexible financing arrangement to enable India continue accessing long-term IBRD finance for development projects

India initiates measures to discipline economy

It includes liberalisation of External Commercial Borrowings policy and portfolio investment norms

Rupee recovers from record low against dollar

It recovered 29 paise to trade at Rs 54.20 against dollar in the late morning trade on Thursday

India’s inflation races to 7.23 % in April

It jumped up by 0.44 per cent from March mainly due to increase in prices of food items and manufactured products

India's industrial output shrinks by 3.5% in March

Due to poor show of manufacturing and mining sectors, it went down for the first time since October 2011 when it shrank b y 4,7 per cent

RBI steps in to control rupee slide

As a first move to prop up the battered currency, the RBI has asked the exporters to convert at least half of their foreign exchange holding in rupee

India to set up electronic development fund

The fund will be utilised for promoting innovation, R&D and commercialisation of products in the IT sector

India planning to double exports by 2013-14

The government is trying to increase exports to Latin American countries, Africa and other countries to achieve the target

India to cut subsidies to 1.75 % of GDP in 3 year

In the current fiscal the country aims to bring down subsidies to below two per cent of the Gross Domestic Product

India plans to acquire fuel assets abroad

For this it was considering setting up a fund similar to a sovereign wealth fund

 
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