Analyzing Border Security: Pros And Cons of FMR along India-Myanmar border
Initiated in 1970, the FMR experienced a resurgence in 2016, finding a place within the broader Act East Policy of New Delhi.
Category Economy and Infrastructure
Trade Unions: Time for Businesses to Recognize the Economic Win
There are two aspects of unions and their work that employers in India would do well to focus on. Their role in bridging the wide gap between enterprise-level rationality and economy-wide rationality. On completing Indian society's stunted modernization, which depresses the quality of workforce.
2023: The Year That Will Make 2024 Look Good
The year that is drawing to a close has been violent, dominated by war and civil war, war-induced starvation and disease, economic slowdown, climate change-induced extreme weather events, and the rise of right-wing politics in different parts of the world, creating schism and violence.
Building a Sustainable Future: A Call to Action
The United Nations climate change conference, COP28, has entered the final stretch. Negotiators are brainstorming on the future of fossil fuels. According to Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, “the success of COP28 will depend on leaders calling for a just and equitable phase-out of all fossil fuels without exceptions and distractions.” European Union climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has promised a big push on the issue.
In the Global Spotlight: India’s Entry into JP Morgan’s Government Bond Index
The announcement came in September that India would be included in JPMorgan Chase's 'Goverment Bond Index- Emerging Markets' from June 2024. This immediately strikes most people as something of interest, not so much to the man in the street as to the man on Dalal Street. This would be as misplaced as thinking that the World Trade Organisation matters only to traders or that a viral cough and flu in Chinese city affects only the locals.
Marginal Uptrend: Exploring Minimal Growth in Tax Payer Compliance
The income tax data released recently points to the skewed nature of income distribution in the country, with only about 0.68% people paying effective taxes.
Decoding Sam Altman’s Impact on Personal Loan Guarantees in India
The shock and sense of injustice that most Indians feel at the ouster of a founder from the company he or she founded also gives, in the same breath, legitimacy to founders being held responsible, without limit, for the failure of the company and for its resultant liabilities.