Macro Track July 2013

Business Expectations: Business Sentiments Regained in First Quarter of FY13–14 The 85th Round of the Business Expectations Survey carried out in June 2013 shows recovery in the NCAER Business Confidence Index. Information, Communication and Technology (ICT): ICT Literacy Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly ‘hyper-connected’ with Information Communication Technology becoming omnipresent and intrinsic to relationships between individuals, businesses and the government. Health: Shift in Morbidity Patterns among Indians India, in the epidemiological transition, faces a dual burden of communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases.