Daily Practice Sheet 14 May 2021
- May 14, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPS
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Daily Practice Sheet
14 May 2021
Daily Prelims Topic
- Common Service Centre
- SWAMIH
- Committee to appoint new CBI director
- Indicative Notes feature
- NRC
- 102nd amendment
- FCRA
- MCLR:
- TRAI
- House arrest
- Indicative notes
- Venture capital fund
Daily Mapping
- Paraguay
Daily Data
Remittances
- The World Bank, in its latest Migration and Development Brief, said despite COVID-19, remittance flows remained resilient in 2020, registering a smaller decline than previously projected.
- India received $83 billion in remittances in 2020 (drop of just 0.2 per cent from the previous year). In 2019, India had received USD83.3 billion in remittances (much of the decline due to a 17 per cent drop in remittances from the United Arab Emirates).
- China, which received USD 59.5 billion in remittances in 2020 against USD 68.3 billion the previous year, is a distant second
- India and China are followed by Mexico (USD42.8 billion), the Philippines (USD34.9 billion), Egypt (USD29.6 billion), Pakistan (USD26 billion), France (USD24.4 billion) and Bangladesh (USD21 billion).
Daily Mains Mantra
GS2: International Relations
- Delays gaps and failings of the WHO necessitate urgent overhaul. Discuss. [Reference: Financial Express]
GS3: Economy
- What is National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP)? How far this can overcome India’s infrastructure challenges. [Reference: Financial Express]
GS 4: Ethics