Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 3- Transforming military
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Coronavirus – Economic Issues
Is the perpetual bond a suitable option to raise money?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Perpetual bonds.
Mains level: Paper 3- What are the option available with the government to raise the money to fight the covid pandemic?
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
Stimulus package conundrum
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Fiscal deficit.
Mains level: Paper 3- Stimulus package to tackle the covid-19 impact.
Panchayati Raj Institutions: Issues and Challenges
Opportunity to strengthen the 73rd and 74th amendment
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments
Mains level: Paper 2- Need for strengthening the panchayat raj institutions in the letter and spirit enshrined in the Constitution.
Biofuel Policy
The evergreen debate of Food versus Fuel
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Provision of biofuels policy 2018
Mains level: Paper 3- Trade offs involved in making fuels from food grains.
Air Pollution
Environmental regulations: go or no go?
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: NDMA, NDMA-2005 and its provisions.
Mains level: Paper 3- Lowering of environment standard is not a good strategy to revive the economy in the wake of corona pandemic.
Food Procurement and Distribution – PDS & NFSA, Shanta Kumar Committee, FCI restructuring, Buffer stock, etc.
FCI to the rescue
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: FCI.
Mains level: Paper 3- Role of the FCI.
Industrial Sector Updates – Industrial Policy, Ease of Doing Business, etc.
From informal to the formal economy: The crooked road
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Share of informal economy in the country's economy.
Mains level: Paper 3- Huge presence of the informal sector in the Indian economy and ways to formalise it.
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
Globalisation 2.0 after Covid-19
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Various economies of the world and their share in the world economy.
Mains level: Paper 3- Impact of pandemic on globalisation.
Food Procurement and Distribution – PDS & NFSA, Shanta Kumar Committee, FCI restructuring, Buffer stock, etc.
Three dimensions of food security amid Covid-19
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: National Food Security Act.
Mains level: Paper 3-Ensuring food security with all its dimension amid corona pandemic.
Coronavirus – Health and Governance Issues
Strategy for calibrated opening of economy
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Opportunity cost.
Mains level: Paper 2- Easing the lockdown, strategy that could be adopted.
Intellectual Property Rights in India
Rethinking the role of Intellectual Property in Corona crisis
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: TRIPS.
Mains level: Paper 3- How Covid-19 could impact the intellectual property rights?
Zoonotic Diseases: Medical Sciences Involved & Preventive Measures
Plasma therapy is no silver bullet
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Convalescent plasma therapy.
Mains level: Paper 3- What is plasma therapy and issues involved in its adoption.
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
It is time to design clear rules for departure from accepted norms of fiscal prudence
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Deficit financing through the RBI. Deflation.
Mains level: Paper 3- Necessity of stimulus package and risks involved in it.
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
Ease legal constraints on fiscal expenditure
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: FRBM Act provisions.
Mains level: Paper 3-Legal provisions for the fiscal consolidation that needs to be changed for the the stimulus package in the wake of corona pandemic.
Foreign Policy Watch: India-SAARC Nations
Common problems of South Asia call for collective efforts against Covid-19
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Poor health infrastructure of SAARC countries and other common problems.
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
It will take fiscal boldness now to relieve financial distress
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Money multiplier.
Mains level: Paper 3- Government spending to sustain the economy hit by the corona crisis.
Oil and Gas Sector – HELP, Open Acreage Policy, etc.
Sharp fall in oil prices is opportunity for India to increase stockpile
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: SPR
Mains level: Paper 3- Importance of SPR , issues with it and need for the diversification.
Coronavirus – Health and Governance Issues
New global order in post-Covid-19 world
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Changes in the post-Covid-19 world in geopolitics and the geoeconomics.
Coronavirus – Economic Issues
The universal delivery of food and cash transfers by the state amid Covid-19
Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level: Not much.
Mains level: Paper 2- Provision and suggestions to reduce the impact of corona crisis on the poor.
