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.
Like a dilapidated old, very old house, our world is in a state of grave disrepair, almost on the verge of collapse due to a host of destructive forces and negative tendencies on the part of humans, “the wisest of the wise”. We are living in a world that, while anything but exceptional, is increasingly the exception to every rule.
It is unprecedented that most lawmakers of the party attended the official ceremony to memorialize the civil revolt, which has long been associated with the liberal Democratic Party of Korea.
The Turkish President had said last week that his country would “not view positively” the applications of the two countries for membership of the alliance. He confined his criticism to Sweden, which has been welcoming Kurdish refugees.
Unlike several of his predecessors and to a decidedly greater degree, Donald Trump, the incumbent at the White House has been almost exceptionally prompt in castigating what they call “white supremacy” in the context of the recent killing of ten blacks by a white in Buffalo, near New York.
The purpose of formation of Nato immediately after World War II was to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. Was there any need for this military alliance to continue even after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and collapse of the Warsaw Pact alliance? If the spirit of cooperation that was seen during the negotiations for reunification of Germany had prevailed, successive US administrations would not have been so keen on Nato's enlargement immediately after the disintegration of USSR.
