Last week the UNDP released its poverty report for 2022. The good news is that global poverty has fallen.However, the bad news is that it is still at a staggering level of 1.2 billion. Worse, bulk of the global poor live in developing countries or what we know as the global South. The biggest takeaway […]Read More
Little over a week ago the Reserve Bank of India set the stage for another round of disruption in the payments landscape of India. It circulated a concept note on the digital rupee or what it preferred to call the e-Rupee. At its simplest, the e-Rupee mimics its equivalent, cash. Yet it does not exist […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If there is one wrinkle to Xi Jinping’s third term it is the Chinese economy. The combination of the covid-19 pandemic and the seismic geopolitical shifts have hurt the economy. It has most certainly lost its juggernaut-like momentum. The big question is whether the sharp slowdown could unleash a fresh set of challenges. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Since the turn of the Millennium India has been dubbed as another case of jobless growth. Yes, as an economy it has grown from $1 trillion to $3 trillion in little over a decade. However, official employment numbers, though dated reveal that job creation has been lagging behind. The size of the workforce […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Addressing the 45th annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Mukesh Ambani, the company’s chairman, made a big promise: Launching Jio’s 5G operations by Diwali, And audaciously once again, Ambani promised to dare commercial boundaries and roll out “highly affordable fixed broadband services to hundreds of millions of locations in a […]Read More
Identity, Islam, Imran & India: Pakistan’s Long March To…?
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