-Newsclick.in A majority of enterprises surveyed said they were finding it difficult to manage staff and operations, the ILO report says. New Delhi: As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts several economies worldwide, particularly India’s, a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says that the greatest challenge faced by businesses across the globe has been keeping up Cash flow to manage operations and staff, tide over supplier disruptions and gaining access to...
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USD 271 bn consumer spending to shift from Cash to cards,digital payments by 2023 in India:Accenture
-PTI/ The Hindu The report is based on a survey of 120 payments executives at banks globally regarding the transformation of their payments business About 66.6 billion transactions worth USD 270.7 billion are expected to shift from Cash to cards and digital payments by 2023 in India, and further increase to USD 856.6 billion by 2030, a report by Accenture said on Tuesday. This rapid shift to digital payments due to the COVID-19...
More »Prabhat Patnaik, eminent economist and professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, interviewed by Subhoranjan Dasgupta (The Telegraph)
-The Telegraph ‘Farmers at mercy of corporates, food security threatened’ Eminent economist, professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and activist Prabhat Patnaik traces the downward and dangerous slide of the Indian economy, from the demonetisation to the new farm bills. * The first onslaught was in the form of the demonetisation. While Amartya Sen termed this step “despotic”, Narendra Modi gushed that there would be no black money after the demonetisation. In the...
More »Odisha Migrant Workers Return To Gruelling Shifts, Poor Wages -Sunaina Kumar
-IndiaSpend.com New Delhi: In mid-October, machinist Bipin Ramesh Sahu, 38, was flown back to Surat from his southern Odisha village by his former employer, a textile mill owner. Sahu, among the 6.7 million migrant workers to lose their jobs and return home during the lockdown in India, assumed that his employer’s eagerness to re-employ him meant better living and working conditions in Surat--more humane shifts, safety gear, wage cheques instead of...
More »Demonetisation: Modi’s Hollow Claims on Curbing Black Money -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The PM’s claim that greater Cash use is associated with less transparency and hence a larger black economy is baseless, as is his assertion that Cash use in India has fallen. On the fourth anniversary of demonetisation (November 8), Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed that it succeeded in curbing black money. He probably believes he can get away with making this claim because of the passage of time. But most...
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