Globalized supply chains have accelerated growth over the past decades but are proving fragile in the current pandemic. As companies assess the new risks emerging from globalization, safe supply is moving center stage. Compressed air...
Over the past few decades, the Micro, Small, and Medium enterprise (MSME) sector have occupied a position of strategic importance in the Indian economic structure. This sector contributes nearly 28 percent of the country’s GDP,...
New two and a half month highs in the S&P 500 yesterday failed to have much sway in the Asia Pacific region and Europe today as US-China tensions escalate and profit-taking set in. Perhaps it...
Indian high tech manufacturing may be the big winner as rich countries around the world are rethinking globalization and their heavy reliance on China as the coronavirus pandemic slows down. It has been a bad...
A tsunami of COVID-19 has impacted us all socially, economically and psychologically. The focus in the initial phase was on saving lives (Jaan) and is now shifting to economic wellbeing (Jahaan) of individuals, business and...
Introduced in 2017, Goods and Services Tax (GST) remains an issue of much debate. The effectiveness of the tax form has been under scrutiny because it withdraws from all other distributed indirect tax and is...
Recycling plastics and other synthetic materials is often costly and not always possible. Researchers have now found an enzyme that decomposes PET in just hours and allows new plastic bottles to be profitably produced Researchers...
-As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. Right now, we are collectively facing a global recession. The situation started last year when the complicated American Repo...
The head of the European Chamber of Commerce in China says the Asian country has lost some of its influence in the world. But he doesn’t expect a fundamental rethinking of economic ties in the...
The world clamoured in shock and in pain as the viscous face of the virus barged in. A deadly infection surged across towns, cities, villages big and small. A virus which emerged from Wuhan had...
Microsoft has reported a rise in profits, exceeding Wall Street expectations. The tech giant’s cloud computing services have flourished in a global economy reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. Microsoft on Wednesday posted a sharp rise...
That Covid-19 comes from the city of Wuhan, China is in no doubt at this point. As new human flus come from Asia every year, almost in a pendulum-like fashion, but also avian flues, the...