Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr would like to receive state support, but does not want state management. His motivation becomes clearer when one takes a look at France. The EU’s competition watchdog on Monday approved French...
Whoever wins the race to come up with a successful coronavirus vaccine will also win massive profits. But while the industry vows to make a vaccine globally accessible, not all are on board with that...
Few countries and few governments are having a good crisis but some seem to be faring better than others as shown in the below figure, with the important caveat that the data is one week...
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the overreliance of companies and governments on China for just about everything, from cars to medicines. But they will not be packing up and leaving China anytime soon. The COVID-19...
RBI announced a relief package in March 2020, due to ongoing crisis of corona virus. Under the package, it has given an option to choose moratorium for term loans and credit card payments. First of...
Domestic economic challenges due to COVID-19 are likely to force China to dial back on big-ticket infrastructure projects. But Beijing will not shy away from bankrolling virus-hit countries to score geopolitical gains. The coronavirus pandemic,...
Migrant labour who lived in various parts of the country are in real trouble. They have lost their source of livelihood. Most of them are day-labourers and are devoid of all sources of income. They...
With more than half the global population under some form of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sustainable habits can easily fall by the wayside. But we can still fight off the virus and keep...
The scale of the pandemic is the result of official mendaciousness. Policymakers must start telling the truth in order to slow the further spread of the coronavirus, DW’s Rodion Ebbighausen writes. A quick look at...
Just two weeks into this crisis some are actually calculating how many deaths society can accept to salvage the economy. For DW’s Henrik Böhme, this is unacceptable. It’s a question to which there is no...
While the true extent of the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 outbreak is yet to be determined, what’s certain is that the crisis will claim millions of jobs. But a handful of sectors may...
Sri Lanka followed suit after the Philippines became the first country to close down its stock market. The PSE may resume operations on Thursday. The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on Tuesday suspended trading operations. It...
