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Dangers Of Focussing Only On Economic Growth, Which Can Be Harmful To Humans And Environment As Well.  Recent Report By UNESCAP, Survey 2019: Recently a report, 'Survey 2019' was  published by UNESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific) and the theme of the report was 'Ambitions Beyond Growth'. The main aim of Survey 2019 is to focus on ways and methods to make ambitious Agenda 2030 or Agenda 30 of  SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) successful.  Steps to be Taken: An additional annual investment of $1.5 trillion will be allocated in developing countries of Asia Pacific region, so that they can achieve the set goals of Agenda 2030 of SDGs. In the report, UNESCAP has further added that the developing countries of Asia Pacific region should expand their policies beyond the focus of mere economic growth. The fundamental reason for this is, the countries facing high levels of inequality, unemployment and most importantly e...

Sudan Political Crisis. Sudan Political Crisis That Is Becoming a Cause Of Worry For It's Neighbouring Countries As Well.   Prior to 2011 Sudan and South Sudan together were one big country. Sudan was the largest nation in African Continent until Sudan broke into two separate countries Sudan and South Sudan. Now the largest country of Africa is Algeria which too is facing severe political crisis.  Sudan shares border with many strategically important countries which are Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and has a coastline with Red Sea which has the potential to serve any country of Africa to directly reach important countries like Israel, Saudi Arabia. So we can see Sudan is geographically positioned in such a way that it automatically gains high strategic importance.  As mentioned above the countries with which Sudan shares borders, those neighbouring countries are facing huge poverty, and the biggest reason for this ...

Boosting Private Investment In India, Presented By- Mohit Singh. Ways to Boost Private Investment In India In Order To Enhance Growth Rate, Employment, Exports.  If we will see the economy of India, then the primary reason that is contributing towards the growth of India's economy are Consumption and Government Spending. In India Consumption and Government Spending are the main source for gross capital formation and investment in the economy. But the problem is that, Government spending led growth is bound to hit plateau, in order to break this barrier Private Investment has to come into play to further accelerate economy, and when I am talking about private investment then it means that there should be least intervention from government side at a time when private firms want to expand their base the way they want. Government  should only intervene to the extent of imposing basic and necessary regulations.  Current Growth Scenario in India : As we know ...

US-INDIA Trade War, A Trade War That Is Running Parallel To US-China Trade War. It's a fact that few years back when anyone used to talk about Trade War then the response that person used to get was, there could be no Trade War, the world economy is very stable, Donald Trump is a very smart businessman and he won't push US into a trade war, but soon US-China Trade War happened followed by USA Trade war with multiple countries and consequently India too fell into Trade War with the US. The Trade War that's going on between US and India is very important at least from India's point of view as we need to observe, to what extent this ongoing Trade War would impact India's relation with US and does India require to change her foreign policy in the coming years.   Developments: India hiked duty on 29 category of items that were imported from the US. This was basically a retaliatory step taken by India against US imposing high tariffs on steel and aluminium ...

The US-CHINA Trade War Which has Grown More Intense and is Predicted to Intensify Over a Period of Time, and Who is going to Finally Benefit From This. By Trade War what do we mean?: Trade war is a situation where country imposes tariffs which means imposing tax on goods that are imported making it more expensive thereby restricting trade and then there is a similar retaliatory move by the opponent country. Tariff also serves as a source of direct revenue for the government. How do Countries get into this Trade War: .To understand this just suppose that there are two countries, Country 1 and Country 2. Now Country 1 imposes high tariffs on imports from Country 2 which Country 2 finds unreasonable. Due to this Country 2 in retaliation imposes high tariffs on imports from Country 1, thus leading these two countries into Trade War. The reasons for Trade War to erupt are many but one primary reason is  Trade War is one potential result of protectionism. Basically if a count...

Chinese Milk Banned Again In India As There Are Speculations Regarding High Content Of Melamine Present In The Milk. Whenever you go to supermarkets or departmental stores or airports you might have noticed one thing that there is no Chinese milk or Chinese Milk Products like chocolates present on the shelves, though you will find American chocolates, Or everyone's favourite Swiss chocolates and cheese. Reason for this absence of Chinese dairy in our market is the ban that was imposed on Chinese dairy back in 2008, and since then many consecutive ban extensions has been imposed on Chinese Dairy, and this time it's going to be more strict. Issue: The Government has recently extended further ban on import of Chinese Milk and Milk products and any floating dairy product in Indian market manufactured in China, the reason for this is Melamine which has caused havoc in many countries killing hundreds of infants.  Official Statement: "Prohibition on impo...

The Rise of ISIS.   The Rise Of  ISIS From A Small Rebel Group of Afghanistan to Forming The Largest Terrorist Organisation and Making an attempt to Establish Caliphate (Khalifa) Similar to the last Caliphate The Ottoman Caliphate. ISIS is known by different names one name that David Cameron gave to ISIS which was widely used was ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) but officially the organisation is called as 'Islamic State' ISIS or ISIL is a Salafi Jihadist Militant Group, Salafi Jihadism is basically a religious and somewhat political ideology that strictly believes in physical jihadism and the Salafi Movement which overall is linked to the ideology that Sunni Islam is true Islam and the law that governs them is Sharia Law. Though the struggle for the formation of ISIS as the largest terrorist organisation is very long and covers a long period of time towards its development what we witnessed in 2014 but the small rebel group of Afghanistan never aspired to b...