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Unemployment rate drops to 6.8% in July driven by a recovery in rural India
The rural sector added 6.3 million jobs in July while the urban sector lost 0.6 million jobs
OBICUS Survey
The Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilization Survey (OBICUS) on the Manufacturing sector published by RBI.
Industrial Outlook
An economic indicator that measures the degree of optimism or pessimism that manufacturing companies feel about the overall business climate
Index Of Infrastructure Output
A combined index that measures the production performance of Eight Core Industries: refinery, electricity, steel, coal, crude oil, natural gas, cement and fertilizers.
Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
The all India IIP is a composite indicator that measures the short-term changes in the volume of production of a basket of industrial products during a given period with respect to that in a chosen base period.
Global Innovation Index
It is published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation.
Wholesale Inflation
It measures the changes in the wholesale price of basket of 697 goods. The quantum of rise in the WPI month-after-month is used to measure the level of wholesale inflation in the economy.
Retail Inflation
It is a general rise in consumer price levels where a unit of currency effectively buys lesser goods and services. More commonly, people refer to inflation as "the rising cost of living".
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