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Rebooting Economy XXII: Why is India reluctant to provide unemployment allowance?
India's new unemployment allowance plan for lockdown-induced job loss would benefit a small fraction of organised workers; the new social security code in the works aims to expand social security to 100 million organised workers but contains no concrete plan for 437 million unorganised workers
How to predict consumer behavior in a post-COVID-19 world
The focus should be on new emerging "new high value" customers whose earnings and businesses are only going to grow, even in this new post-pandemic era
Rebooting Economy XXI: Will NEP 2020 bring quality and equity in education?
NEP 2020 does not address the fundamental flaws in Indian education system: poor public investment, ad hoc and low-paid teachers, segregation of students on socio-economic status and low quality of school education. Rhetorical flourish doesn't bring transformative changes
5 ways India's public sector enterprises can help further climate agenda
The beginning has already been made by PSEs primarily in the energy and transport sector, more such initiatives will be needed to chart the way for transitioning India to a low carbon economy
What is unconscious bias in the workplace, and how can organisations address it?
If we can build a safe space for our people to share their opinions and reflect on them without judgement, it can create a paradigm shift in how we deal with bias
Transparent taxation: Why India needs an efficient tax system
India's current efforts in restructuring its tax system should eventually eliminate the need for compliance - something similar to what the tax administration department of UK, is trying to achieve through its Making Tax Digital initiative
Rebooting Economy XX: Do developed economies depend on private schooling and funding for quality education?
High and middle-income countries that have consistently performed well in PISA, the global test of quality schooling, notably rely on public schooling and public funding of schooling. India, which participated in it once in 2009 and came second last, does the exact opposite
COVID-19 impact on handicrafts sector: A struggle that only got harder
Since the COVID-19 lockdown, most of the artisans have been out of work. Only 15 out of 40 looms are operational. Stocks have accumulated and they are facing a severe cash crunch
Rebooting Economy XIX: How India relies on low-paid ad hoc teachers for schooling children
No wonder the quality of education in Indian schools is very poor. The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) says just 16.2% students in Class I and 50.8% in Class III could read Class I text and 41.1% students in Class I and 72.2% in Class III could recognise 2-digit numbers in rural India
The ups and ups of India's digital journey
Indian IT firms lifted the Indian industry and the economy into a global view, expanding faster than any other industry through the decade