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Cities’ economy and the role of urban industrial sectors, local businesses, employment, startups and entrepreneurship, jobs and livelihoods, formal, informal and gig economy.

buying online: new draft e-com rules
Economy

Explainer: Why industry, ministries are clashing over new e-commerce rules

November 1, 2021 Utkarsha Srivastava

The draft e-commerce rules are framed to provide better consumer protection against fraud, non-delivery and high costs. What’s behind the objections then?

New trends in retail shopping
Economy

Future of Jobs: As ‘shopping’ changes, seismic shift in nature of retail jobs

October 13, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

Some brands are now going entirely DTC, or ‘direct to consumer’, cutting out middlemen. Such trends will see retail jobs getting completely reinvented.

Working woman in Bengaluru slum
Economy

What ‘work from home’ means for women in informal settlements

September 24, 2021 Aditi Murti

For women in informal settlements in our cities, homes are most often workspaces too. Access to services at home determines their working conditions.

Image data analytics
Economy

Future of Jobs: Welcome to the world of algorithm makers, big-data analytics

September 7, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

It’s the age of Big Data. The field of data science is brimming with opportunities, in sub-segments like data visualization and data communication.

Urban rich poor divide: Slums next to high-rise commercial buildings
Economy

Opinion: Rising economic burden on the urban working class widens rich-poor gap

August 9, 2021 Tikender Panwar

Privatisation of basic necessities, which should essentially be provided by the state, must be reversed to reduce the economic woes of the urban working class.

Word cloud of marketing terms and business jargon
Economy

Future of jobs: Marketing needs to regain its C-suite appeal

August 3, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

As the pandemic retreats, marketing professionals must unearth new insights that can power brands ahead and win back the positions of power they enjoyed.

Reverse migration during the first wave in 2020
Economy

Migrant workers back in cities, but where are the jobs?

July 24, 2021 Raj Machhan

Even skilled migrant workers are finding it difficult to get work, and thus taking up semi-skilled, unskilled jobs or short term gigs.

Economy

Inflation+recession=Poverty+high prices. The corollary: Hunger

June 29, 2021 Ashwani Sharma

For most middle and low income urban families, the only way to cope with the rising inflation has been to slash expenditure on food.

Second COVID wave in India badly hit daily wage urban workers
Economy

Guest column: A councillor-driven urban jobs initiative could save the day

June 26, 2021 Ankur Sarin

DUET, A councillor-driven urban employment initiative, and decentralisation

Kerala's Ayyankali Urban Employmen Scheme
Economy

Empower and fund local bodies to make urban employment guarantee work: Experts

June 25, 2021 Navya P K

We spoke to two eminent economists on issues concerning creation of urban employment guarantee schemes; both stressed on decentralisation and involvement of local governments.

Orissa govt's urban work programme in 2020
Economy

Urban employment guarantee Part 2: The challenge lies in making it viable

June 23, 2021 Vijaya Pushkarna

Many economists concur on the need for an urban job guarantee scheme, à la MNREGA, but differences remain over how to make it work. The government doesn’t seem too interested either.

Some income guarantee in villages for migrant labour
Economy

Urban employment guarantee Part 1: “Desperate times call for desperate measures”

June 22, 2021 Vijaya Pushkarna

In the first of a three part series, we explore the need for a work guarantee scheme to mitigate the crippling effects of the pandemic on the urban poor.

Economy

Over 60 lakh pensioners fast to protest delay in increasing dues

June 5, 2021 M S Natarajan

Around 65 lakh pensioners went on a one day fast, demanding implementation of a Supreme Court order to the EPFO to increase their dues.

A professional attending an online training session
Economy

Future of jobs: Internships, the new final job interview

May 20, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

The author’s first word of advice in this oped: Don’t get obsessed with a ‘dream company’. Have a ‘dream industry’ orientation instead.

Economy

Locked down, but not out: Women entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad

March 23, 2021 Binita Parikh

What started as an activity to pass time creatively during the lockdown were turned into a viable business by these indomitable women.

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