Day: April 5, 2020

In the middle of the corona crisis, French President Emmanuel Macron has decided that his most urgent need is to have a new PR person

How long will the coronavirus pandemic last along with the deep economic recession it has created? I am a pessimist and fear a protracted tragedy.

Since March 25, India has come to terms with the enormous challenges of managing a 21-day total lockdown — an exercise that most countries in

India is in crisis, and it is not just because of Covid-19. This pandemic is a surging, temporal disaster that has laid bare an ongoing,

India’s differently-abled are left in the lurch by virus and lockdown. The govt’s measures, or the lack thereof, fail to ease their burden Almost everybody

The world is staring at a recession, economic output in June 2020 quarter is going to shrink, and growth for FY21 will be sharply lower

Inter-state coordination for movement of essential goods and immediate monetary support to migrant labourers and daily-wage workers are some of the other suggestions The government

If gold held by the top 30% of Indian households can be mobilised, it can be used for dollar swaps, while depositors could be provided

Residential property prices across India’s top cities witnessed a dismal growth in the past five years, indicating that the prolonged demand slowdown has kept value

By Teena Thacker “Whatever the stage, the key action points are – engage with people; find, isolate, test and treat cases and trace every contact;

By Simon Kennedy The world’s workers are reeling from the initial shock of the coronavirus recession, with job losses and welfare claims around the globe already

MUMBAI: Domestic remittances, usually from big cities and more affluent areas to India’s rural hinterland, plunged about 80% in the past two weeks, triggered likely by

IMF asked advanced economies to step up efforts to help emerging markets survive the impact of the pandemic. “This is a crisis like no other,”