Agriculture in India has a long history and is one of the strongholds of the economy. The sector provides employment to over 55% of the Indian workforce and accounts for 14.6% of India’s GDP, playing a crucial role in the overall socio-economic development of the country. View full post on All Stories
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An integrated future policy is an imperative
December 12th, 2010 
davidguide 
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Comments OffWal-Mart to stop extra $1 Sunday pay for employees
December 9th, 2010 davidguide Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News News Writer Bentonville, Arkansas, United States (AHN) – Wal-Mart Stores announced Wednesday that it will no longer pay its employees who work Sundays an additional $1 an hour. The new policy, however, would only cover workers hired after Jan. 1, 2011. Current U.S. employees numbering 1.4 million will not be [...]
Posted in Lending News Tags: allied workers union, Arkansas, chief executive officer, Chief Executive Officer Mike Duke, consecutive quarters, Employees, extra, Lending, majority share, Mart, Massachusetts, Massmart, mike duke, News, policy, Rhode Island, sales declines, South, Stop, Sunday, U.S., United States, wal mart stores, walmart Comments OffDollar ends lower on China rate hike fears
December 8th, 2010 davidguide THE Australian dollar ended softer today, on growing concern that China was considering tightening monetary policy to slow its rapidly growing economy. View full post on All Stories
Posted in Lending News Tags: australian dollar, China, Concern, dollar, economy, Ends, fears, growing concern, Hike, lower, monetary policy, policy, rate, today, View Comments OffFed’s Lacker: Unemployment shouldn’t be targeted
December 6th, 2010 davidguide WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Monetary policy can be steered off-course by targeting unemployment, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said in a speech on Monday, according to a transcript of his remarks to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. “At some point we will need to respond by reducing the provision of liquidity to the banking system to [...]
Posted in Lending News Tags: balance, Charlotte Chamber, charlotte chamber of commerce, Fed, fed policy, fed president, Fed's, inflation, jeffrey lacker, Lacker, market pulse, MarketWatch, policy, President Jeffrey Lacker, professional forecasters, Richmond, richmond fed, sheet, shouldn't, targeted, Unemployment, Washington Comments OffChina To Set Tight Monetary Policy
December 4th, 2010 davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Beijing, China (AHN) – China announced its intent to tighten its monetary policy in 2011 in a shift from relatively loose to a prudent stance, a sign that it might hike interest rates. In 2008, China responded to the global economic policy by loosening its then tight monetary policy. [...]
Posted in Lending News Tags: Beijing, beijing china, China, communist government, global economic policy, government leadership, growth, inflation, Lending, market segments, monetary, Percent, policy, price, price bubbles, Tight, tight monetary policy Comments OffMiliband sets out major overhaul of Labour party
November 27th, 2010 davidguide Miliband launches major policy review, saying Labour party must do more than wait for the government to ‘screw up’ Ed Miliband has pledged to make Labour the party of people’s “hopes and aspirations” as he launched a major review of its policies in the wake of the general election defeat. In his first address to [...]
Posted in Lending News Tags: Alan Johnson, Alan Johnson John Denham, Britain, broken promises, David Batty, Ed, Ed Miliband, gillingham kent, government, John Denham, Kent, Labour, labour party, liberal democrats, Major, Miliband, national policy forum, new labour, overhaul, party, policy, policy inquiries, screw, Sets, shadow, Tessa Jowell Comments OffExpanding Tuberculosis Control In China: Combining Domestic And Foreign Investment
November 24th, 2010 davidguide China had an estimated 1.3 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2008, of which 112,000 were multi-drug resistant (MDR-TB). Over the period 2001-2008, TB was the second largest cause of death among China’s 39 notifiable communicable diseases. In a Policy Forum, published in this week’s PLoS Medicine, Zhong-wei Jia (Peking University) and colleagues from [...]
Posted in Lending News Tags: Beijing, beijing china, cause, China, china report, Combining, control, death, Domestic, Expanding, Foreign, forum, Investment, MDR-TB, peking university, period, plos medicine, policy, tb case, Tuberculosis, tuberculosis tb, Zhong-wei Jia Comments OffEx Bulgarian Minister: FinMin Suffocates Economy
October 29th, 2010 davidguide Bulgaria’s budget policy is in complete chaos, said former Energy Minister, Rumen Ovcharov, and accused the Finance Minister Simeon Djankov of suffocating the Bulgarian economy. In an interview for the Bulgarian private TV channel bTV on Friday, Ovcharov said that in a period of 30 months, the inflation in the country will be 10%. He [...]
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October 27th, 2010 davidguide The Bank of Japan may want to consider buying foreign currency assets to help ease the yen’s appreciation, economic and fiscal policy minister Banri Kaieda said. View full post on All Stories
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Britain’s austerity: 4 lessons for Washington
Commentary: Maya MacGuineas is the director of the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation. View full post on All Stories