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.
Any commentator worth her name cannot but engage with the fact that Balendra Shah is now the mayor of Kathmandu. Indeed, there were other independents equally successful. Most notable among them were Gopal Hamal of Dhangadhi and Harka Sampang of Dharan.
China’s next generation of leaders is in the spotlight in the run-up to the forthcoming 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). President Xi Jinping, while he still has a firm grip on the levers of power in Beijing, is now pushing 70.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced legislation on Monday to implement a “national freeze” on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun-control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns.
The pandemic news coming out of China over the past month has been grim with Covid spreading widely despite Xi Jinping’s efforts to contain the virus.
The mass murder at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, occurred behind a locked door as a posse of armed police waited outside, taking no action other than to handcuff a mother among the crowd of desperate parents urging them to do their duty while threatening others with a Taser.
