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First Principles | Stumbling blocks and why UPI has slowed down

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Any payment system must be acceptable across all parts of the value chain.
Updated on Mar 31, 2023 05:10 pm IST

Infraprime Logistics to catalyse USD 200m investment in construction logistics

IPLT Rhino 5536 is being charged at the IPLT’s Bilaspur charging station.
Updated on Dec 01, 2020 10:21 am IST

Disentangling India’s trade surplus

Will the self-reliance campaign create local manufacturing to substitute certain import items?
Updated on Jul 20, 2020 06:55 am IST

Indian brands should aim for the global stage | Opinion

It is important that the most responsible, successful and well identified winning brands drive synergies to make their competitive value chains sustainable and inclusive
Published on Jan 12, 2020 02:03 pm IST

The government must ramp up MGNREGS

In an interview after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics, economist Abhijit Banerjee also batted for the scheme, saying that it was a “successful and good use of money” and has raised incomes of the poor.
Updated on Oct 22, 2019 04:25 pm IST

How India’s policy framework fails the courage and spirit of the entrepreneur

VG Siddhartha’s tragic death is a wake up call to the government about the real challenge of setting up a business and sustaining it
Published on Jul 31, 2019 08:01 pm IST

India should aim for a digital non-alignment

Not just geopolitical rivals, even big digital corporations try to avoid depending on another company for crucial digital supplies. Global digital offerings would increasingly organise, and split, around the two global digital poles of US and China
Updated on Jul 02, 2019 12:33 pm IST

GST Council may tighten rules to curb tax evasion

The federal indirect tax body, is set to take several steps to curb tax evasion in its first meeting to be chaired by new finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on June 21.
Updated on Jun 17, 2019 08:11 am IST

Build an ecosystem, not just industrial islands

Our approach should be that of building an ecosystem, not industrial islands. For the manufacturing sector to thrive, we would need connected and efficient value chains spanning raw material providers, technology providers, trained workforce at all levels, multi-speciality service providers, research and development centres and the crucial logistics infrastructure
Updated on Jun 13, 2019 06:37 pm IST

More than formalising informal jobs, we need to create productive ones

India’s labour markets are as multifaceted as the nation itself. But the tidy binary between informality and formality posits informality as always bad with poor quality work and lack of skill with low productivity and wages
Published on Dec 14, 2018 07:27 am IST

India needs an industrial policy

The Make in India logo. A study by the ministry of commerce shows that some of the success stories of Make in India could be more optics than concrete gains
Published on Oct 16, 2018 05:05 pm IST