Social Sector

The social sector expenditure has grown just 7.7% of the GDP between 2015 and 2019, economic survey saysOf the total 7.7% GDP expenditure, 3.1% went to education, 1.6% to healthcare and rest to other social service segments

They need to play their part by recommending empowerment of local governments to enable good governance

Those who try to discover this land may not effect change, but they themselves certainly change

After the merger, GiveIndia plans to invest over Rs15 crore on the combined platform, primarily focused on online subscription-based giving and scaling crowd-funding offerings

As states jostle for more funds, they must also focus on spending their available resources more efficiently

Being a developing economy, there is not enough fiscal space to increase the expenditure on critical social infrastructure like education and health in India, the Economic Survey states

It should lay to rest the ongoing debate about this government's attempt to radically restructure India's welfare architecture

Budget 2017 should be about making some actual commitment reflected in higher allocations towards the social sector

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Behavioural economics could help overcome social obstacles in policy implementation