If India plans to double its economy to $5 trillion by 2022 and grow at 8% per year as he predicted, it will need to invest more in health and education. India lags many of its south Asian neighbours on the human development index (HDI) primarily because of inequalities, said a recent report by the United Nations …
Without income and gender equality, India can’t achieve growth target Read More »
India Inc. showed a rise of 47 per cent in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spendings in 2017-18 compared to 2014-15, according to the KPMG India CSR Reporting Survey 2018. However, according to the survey, the CSR expenditure by Indian companies on war veterans this year accounted to only 7 crores, significantly less compared to 31 crores the …
The 2 percent CSR rule has brought more firms into the social sector, but much of it is still just box-ticking After over four years of corporate social responsibility (CSR) becoming mandatory in India, there remains considerable gap between what had been the objective of this policy and what has been the outcome so far. …
CSR Has Not Translated Into Real Benefit For The Poor Read More »
Just when you feel that you live in a big bad world full of people who are self-centred and manipulative along comes a story that restores our faith in humanity. In this case, a woman named Aarti Madhusudan from Chennai went out of her way to help a hardworking cab driver and father get a good …
While diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart ailments top the charts when it comes to causing deaths worldwide, there are some conditions that aren’t even considered. It turns out that poor diets are also accounted as one of the major causes of death, globally. In fact, a poor diet is right at the top …
Turns Out That Poor Diets Are One Of The Leading Causes Of Death Globally Read More »
