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What Happens To Employees When a Company Goes Bankrupt?
Read more: What Happens To Employees When a Company Goes Bankrupt?During bankruptcy, the employees are often seen as expendable. During the procedure, their savings and pensions are spent on survival (of the company). Can the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code change that?
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Going Beyond GDP: Women and Unpaid Household Work
Read more: Going Beyond GDP: Women and Unpaid Household WorkFor centuries, the burden of unpaid household work (UHW) has unequally been borne by our women. Kamal Hassan’s recently proposed to pay women for their domestic work. The idea originally comes from proposals by Western feminists to monetise household work but the cost of such labour is high in the west, unlike India. In this…
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Broken Markets – Reflection from the labour landscape (Part II)
Read more: Broken Markets – Reflection from the labour landscape (Part II)In this article, the author discusses the trend in budgetary allocations to schemes such as MNREGA to bring out the stark reality through the data analyzed in the July Issue of Infosphere.
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BROKEN MARKETS: REFLECTIONS FROM INDIA’S LABOUR LANDSCAPE
Read more: BROKEN MARKETS: REFLECTIONS FROM INDIA’S LABOUR LANDSCAPEDivyansh Singh provides a narrative to support the data in the Infosphere Issue on India’s labour markets.
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Labour and its pivotal role in classical economics
Read more: Labour and its pivotal role in classical economicsAscertaining labour’s intricate relationship with other agents within an economic system has been a fundamental question in the evolution of economic thought. The predominance of social division provides the basis for determination of many economic factors. Each economist has theorised the role and relative importance of each economic agent. Since labour is copious, it plays…
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CRISIS OF EMPLOYMENT AND DEFLATION IN AMERICA: PAST AND PRESENT
Read more: CRISIS OF EMPLOYMENT AND DEFLATION IN AMERICA: PAST AND PRESENTWhile the coronavirus crisis is most unique in the history of the United States, the nation’s economic history does have certain precedents for tackling the crisis of unemployment and deflation.
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‘The Silences in Modi’s Speech’ – Decoding the Unspoken
Read more: ‘The Silences in Modi’s Speech’ – Decoding the UnspokenIn this article, I will highlight two broad issues that were not addressed in the Prime Minister’s speech – the concerns with medical infrastructure and the problems faced by migrant labourers.
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Causes and Recovery of the Indian Economy Slowdown.
Read more: Causes and Recovery of the Indian Economy Slowdown.From Jan-March 2019 to July- Sep 2019, the Indian economy received a steep fall in its gross domestic product from 8.2% to 4.5%. Reasons for this economic trend seem to encompass many; however, can also be summarized for the purpose of a basic understanding of the situation at hand. One of the major reasons talked…
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Gig Economy: The Word is Out!
Read more: Gig Economy: The Word is Out!In this article the author discusses the gig economy & the rise of non-traditional work. The piece also elucidates how the sharing economy is growing by leaps & bounds & reshaping the job market.
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BUDGET 2019: Expectations from the last of Ache Din
Read more: BUDGET 2019: Expectations from the last of Ache DinIn this article the author Niharika Yadav provides a stake holder analysis of the upcoming budget.