Informal sector can be made competitive
The informal sector comprises a sizable percentage of the workforce, especially in developing countries.
The informal sector comprises a sizable percentage of the workforce, especially in developing countries.
India’s Goods and Services Tax, introduced with the promise of simplifying the tax structure, has once again come under scrutiny.
The year 2024 will be remembered as a period of extraordinary global transformation. At the heart of this upheaval was the persistent sting of inflation, which, despite moderating in many economies, left a lasting impact on the political and social fabric of nations, including India.
The Dark Mountain Manifesto is Planet Earth’s cri de coeur against grotesque inequality and vandalization of nature. It was written by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine after two years of conversation and launched at a small riverside gathering outside Oxford in 2009.
While construction of toilets has received a lot of attention in India’s sanitation campaigns in recent times, another important sanitation need, that of bathrooms, has not received the same attention.
The US sanctions against individuals and a law enforcement agency in Bangladesh took us by surprise ~ especially when we found ourselves bracketed with countries like North Korea and Myanmar ~ sending shock waves throughout the power structure as well as the civil society.
Kolkata’s cricket cognoscenti will not agree anymore but Bengal hasn’t really produced any player who walks into an all-time-best Indian Test team, inclusive of the 12th man.
The agreement has been signed in the midst of escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence, most particularly the storming of the Al Aqsa compound in Jerusalem by extremist settlers under the protection of Israeli forces.
Being up to date on Covid-19 vaccines means having had three or four doses of the same shot at this point. Current boosters are the same formulations as the first authorized shots, based on the original strain of the coronavirus that emerged in late 2019.
It is unfortunate that despite its contributions to various countries of the world to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic, Taiwan is systematically denied a seat at the high table of WHA at the behest of China.
