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PRESENTS

SUPER 40 SERIES TOP 40 PDFS FOR UPSC PRELIMINARY EXAM 2019

BOOKLET NUMBER - 20

IMPORTANT REPORTS AND

INDEXES

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IMPORTANT REPORTS AND INDEXES

SL NO REPORT NAME ISSUING AGENCY HIGHLIGHTS

1 Transformation of

Aspirational Districts

Baseline Ranking and

Real Time Monitoring

Programme

NITI Aayog

49 indicators (81 data

points) across five

developmental areas with

different weightages.

Health and nutrition -

30%

Education – 30%

Agriculture and water

resource – 20%

Basic infrastructure -20%

Financial Inclusion and

skill development - 10%

2 Asian Development

Outlook

Asian Development Bank recent policy measures by

the GoI will help India to

lift economic growth in

the next two fiscal years.

India will remain one of

the fastest-growing major

economies in the world

this year

3 Ambitions Beyond

Growth Report

UN Economic and Social

Commission for Asia and

the Pacific (UNESCAP)

comprehensive

assessment of the

investment needed to

reach the SDGs in the

region by 2030 estimates

an additional $1.5 trillion

per year.

significant savings could

be achieved through

greater emphasis on

education quality and

outcomes.

4 State of Global Air

Report 2019

Health Effects Institute

(HEI) exposure to outdoor and

indoor air pollution

contributed to over 1.2

million deaths in India in

2017.

In India, air pollution is

the third highest cause of

death among all health

risks

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5 Global Multidimensional

Poverty Report

United Nations

Development

Programme (UNDP) and

the Oxford Poverty and

Human Development

Initiative

International measure of

acute poverty covering

over 100 developing

countries.

India has reduced its

poverty rate drastically

from 55% to 28% in 10

years

In India, poverty

reduction among children,

the poorest states,

Scheduled Tribes, and

Muslims was fastest

6 IEA Report International Energy

Agency (IEA) India emitted 2,299

million tonnes of carbon

dioxide in 2018, a 4.8%

rise from last year

India‘s emissions growth

this year was higher than

that of the United States

and China — the two

biggest emitters in the

world.

7 Global Energy

Transition Index

World Economic Forum

(WEF) India has moved up two

places to rank 76th

India is amongst the

countries with high

pollution levels and has a

relatively high CO2

intensity in its energy

system.

8 World Happiness

Report

UN Indians are not as happy

in 2019 as they were in

2018 and the country

figures at 140th place,

seven spots down from

last year.

The list is topped by

Finland for the second

year in a row.

9 Global Environment

Outlook (GEO)

UNEP Human activities are

degrading the global

environment at a pace that

could endanger the

―ecological foundations of

society‖ and human

health.

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10 The

annual Frontiers Report

2019

United Nations

Environmental Assembly

(UNEA)

included a chapter on

nitrogen pollution in its

latest edition.

The INA shows that

agriculture is the main

source of nitrogen

pollution in India. Within

agriculture, cereals

pollute the most.

11 Airpocalypse III Report Greenpeace There are 139 Indian

cities that breach air

pollution standards but

are not included in the

Centre‘s National Clean

Air Programme (NCAP)

Airpocalypse III, as the

Greenpeace report is

titled, analyses air

pollution data of 313

cities and towns for the

year 2017.

12 Future of work Report ILO Document calls on

governments to take steps

to address the challenges

caused by unprecedented

transformations going on

in the world of work.

Due to the unprecedented

transformational change

in the world of work,

there are

several transformational

challenges that are bound

to occur.

Artificial intelligence,

automation and robotics

will lead to job losses, as

skills become obsolete.

13 Global Talent

Competitive Index

(GTCI)

INSEAD business school

in partnership with Tata

Communications and

Adecco Group

GTCI is an annual

benchmarking report that

measures the ability of

countries to compete for

talent.

report measures levels of

Global Talent

Competitiveness by

looking at 68 variables

such as ease of ease of

hiring, gender earnings

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gap, and prevalence of

training in firms.

At 80th rank, India moves

up one position on the

Global Talent

Competitive Index

(GTCI) 2019

14 Global Risk Report World Economic Forum The report urges

governments and

organizations to address

the impact of specific

threats and make

preparations to contain

potential fallout should

they occur.

The survey reflects how

new instabilities are being

caused by the deepening

integration of digital

technologies into every

aspect of life.

15 Democracy Index UK-based company the

Economist Intelligence

Unit (EIU)

It ranks nations on five

parameters – electoral

process and pluralism,

functioning of

government, political

participation, political

culture and civil liberties.

India is ranked at 41 – a

notch above last year.

It is still classified as a

‗flawed democracy‘

according to the index.

16 Climate Change

Performance Index

(CCPI)

Germanwatch, New

Climate Institute and

Climate Action Network

Europe

only few countries have

started working towards

limiting global warming

below 2°C or even at

1.5°C.

India ranks 11th in this

year‘s CCPI, improving

its standing by three

places compared to the

previous edition.

India improved its

performance in the

Renewable Energy

category, joining the

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group of medium

17 Global Gender Gap

Report

World Economic Forum

(WEF)

report indicates it will

take centuries to achieve

gender parity in

workplaces around the

globe.

At current rates, the

global gender gap across a

range of areas will not

close for another 108

years, while it is expected

to take 202 years to close

the workplace gap, WEF

found.

18 Global Carbon Atlas Global Carbon Project

(GCP)

India, the third-highest

contributor, is projected to

see emissions rise by

6.3% from 2017.

The 2.7% projected global

rise in 2018 has been

driven by appreciable

growth in coal use for the

second year in a row, and

sustained growth in oil

and gas use.

19 World Intellectual

Property Report 2018

World Intellectual

Property Organisation

(WIPO)

The number of patents

granted by India shot up

by 50 per cent in 2017,

keeping up a trend of

steep increases.

The patents granted by

India increased from

8,248 in 2016 to 12,387

last year.

China‘s patent authority

led the world in the

number of patents granted

with 420,144 and was

followed by the US with

318,829.

20 Global Wage Report

2018-19

International Labour

Organization (ILO)

Women are paid the most

unequally in India,

compared to men, when it

comes to hourly wages for

labour.

On average, women are

paid 34 per cent less than

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men.

This gender wage gap has

remained unchanged at 20

per cent from 2016 to

2017. Women are paid

higher hourly wages than

men in Bangladesh.

21 Inclusive Wealth Report

2018

UNEP

while overall global

wealth is rising, the

increase for many

countries comes at the

expense of environmental

assets, such as water,

clean air, forests and

biodiversity.

A country‘s inclusive

wealth is the social value

(not dollar price) of all its

capital assets, including

natural capital, human

capital and produced

capital.

22 Ease of Doing Business U.K. India Business

Council

The perception among

U.K. businesses that

corruption is a major

barrier in doing business

in India has halved.

There has been a

considerable year-on-year

fall in the number of

companies that viewed

‗corruption‘ as a major

barrier – from 34% in

2016 to 25% in 2017.

Corruption is no longer

considered a ‗top-three‘

barrier compared to those

not currently active in

India.

23 Ease of Doing Business

Report 2018

World Bank India has recorded a jump

of 23 positions against its

rank of 100 in 2017.

It is placed now at

77thrank among 190

countries with a leap of

23 ranks.

India has improved its

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rank in 6 out of 10

indicators and has moved

closer to international best

practices (Distance to

Frontier score) on 7 out of

the 10 indicators.

24 Global Soil Biodiversity

Atlas

World Wide Fund for

Nature

India‘s soil biodiversity is

in grave peril.

The two key drivers of

biodiversity loss were the

over exploitation of

natural resources and

agriculture.

India‘s per capita

ecological footprint is less

than 1.75 hectares/person

(which is in the lowest

band, among countries

surveyed).

25 Living Planet Report

World Wide Fund for

Nature

Uncontrolled

consumption has

decimated global wildlife

and has triggered a mass

extinction and exhausted

Earth‘s capacity to

accommodate humanity‘s

expanding appetites.

From 1970 to 2014, 60%

of all animals with a

backbone — fish, birds,

amphibians, reptiles and

mammals — were wiped

out by human activity.

26 WHO report on Air

Pollution and Child

Health

WHO

Every day about 93% of

the world‘s children under

the age of 15 (1.8 billion

children) breathe polluted

air that puts their health

and development at

serious risk.

It attributed deaths of

about 600,000 children

under 15 years of age in

2016 to the joint effects of

ambient and household air

pollution.

It reveals that when

pregnant women are

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exposed to polluted air,

they are more likely to

give birth prematurely,

and have small, low birth-

weight children.

27 “Economic Losses,

Poverty and Disasters”

Report

UN Office for Disaster

Risk Reduction report

India lost $79.5 billion to

climate-related disasters

in the last two decades.

The UNISDR highlighted

that there has been a

―dramatic rise of 251%‖

globally in direct

economic losses from

climate-related disasters

in the last 20 years.

In the period 1998-2017,

disaster-hit countries

reported direct economic

losses of $2.9 trillion,

77% out of which was

caused by climate-related

disasters.

28 Human Capital Index

Report

World Bank

A child born in India

today will be only 44 per

cent as productive when

she grows up as she could

be if she enjoyed

complete education and

full health.

96 out of 100 children

born in India survive to

age 5.

29 IPCC Report on Climate

Change

IPCC

Preventing an extra single

degree of heat could make

a life-or-death difference

in the next few decades

for multitudes of people

and ecosystems on this

fast-warming planet.

Global warming is likely

to reach 1.5°C between

2030 and 2052 if it

continues to increase at

the current rate, the report

states.

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30 Multidimensional

Poverty Index

United Nations

Development

Programme (UNDP) and

the Oxford Poverty and

Human Development

Initiative

In the decade between

2005-06 and 2015-16,

India has halved its

Multidimensional Poverty

Index (MPI) from 54.7

per cent to 27.5 per cent

364 million Indians

continue to experience

acute deprivations in

health, nutrition,

schooling and sanitation

About 196 million MPI

poor people in India,

accounting for more than

half of all

multidimensionally poor

in India, live in the four

states of Bihar,

Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh

and Madhya Pradesh

Just over one in four

multidimensionally poor

people in India are under

ten years of age

Traditionally

disadvantaged groups, in

terms of castes, religions

etc, continue to be the

poorest though they have

experienced the biggest

decadal reduction in MPI

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