Speaking at the Business Today MindRush event on Friday, January 22, Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economic, Columbia University and Former VC, NITI Aayog said that the economic recovery hinges upon how fast the government can bring the coronavirus under control

Most successful, industrialised and fast-growing Asian economies like Japan, South Korea, China, and Vietnam followed this model, as did Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Why can't India?

How the FM can make it a 'never before' Budget. Top experts weigh in

Evidence shows Punjab farmers have brought food security and grown richer in the process while Bihar farmers have grown poorer and Madhya Pradesh farmers are striving to move ahead using MSP

Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers' well-being be achieved without land reforms?

The new wage definition is an attempt to simplify the various regulations related to wages with the promise of easier implementation. However, India Inc still awaits the details. The Bill is anticipated to get enforced by April 2021

India's national agriculture policy is 20 years old and its response to farm crisis continues to be ad hoc, primarily focused on letting private players provide infrastructure and better remuneration to farmers who have consistently failed to deliver

According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey that covered 1,518 employers across the country, the employment trends in the first quarter of 2021 is expected to be on the rise with a Net Employment Outlook of 5 per cent

Top-down reforms since the demonetisation of 2016 have already derailed the economy and brought misery to millions, yet the great zeal to do more of the same amidst protests from several segments of population demonstrate that the intent is far from public welfare

State governments are on a \"policy-law-copy\" mode thus setting in motion a vicious and unhealthy competitive federalism

The global institutional investors attending the virtual round table represent key regions including the US, Europe, Canada, Korea, Japan, Middle East, Australia, and Singapore

\"India's growth has the potential to catalyse global economic resurgence. Any development in India will have a multiplier effect on world's development and welfare,\" said PM Modi

The argument that the new laws are intended to spur investment and boost growth is spurious; more so after special rights and privileges were revoked, the state was downgraded to union territories and its people and political leaders were shut out of democratic space

India was suffering from a twin problem of workers not having any social security because of the country's labour laws and companies not wanting to hire more workers for fear of the same laws that disincentivised labour-intensive production, said the PM

Grover further noted that the long-term objective of the labour reforms should be to create more employment opportunities as India is set to surpass China as the most populous nation

Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar in September said that efforts would be made to complete the labour reforms by implementing the all four labour codes by December 2020

China exports more than $250 billion worth of consumer electronics alone per year while India does $1 billion worth of exports annually

RSS affiliated trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has called for nationwide protests against PM Narendra Modi-led government's recent amendments to the labour laws

Part II of this two-part article looks at more data on the growth of temporary or informal workers in India and how it poses a serious threat not just to the wellbeing of millions of its workers but to the growth prospects of the economy in the long run

Labour unions have opposed new rule which allows companies with upto 300 employees to lay-off staff and close the firm without government approval. The threshold for this was 100 employees earlier