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January 27, 2022: Putin’s gamble; What are people thinking; Stress management
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India doesn't have a jobs crisis, it has a wages crisis
Is technology killing jobs? And can India use technology to create jobs? Teamlease’s Manish Sabharwal says, our problem is providing a living wage, not jobs. We need to worry about improving productivity through the application of land, labour, and capital—and not so much the impact of automation
Muhammad Yunus and the two visions of Adam Smith
In his new book, Nobel Peace Prize winner Yunus argues that social businesses can help solve poverty, unemployment and pollution. However, we need to work hard to make it happen
An emergent India story
This Week: Amazon’s omni-channel push into Indian retail, an interview with Daniel Kahneman, urban youth and the India story, and reframing the Aadhaar debate
A story of debt. A story of opportunities
In this podcast economist Ajit Ranade talks about the larger picture behind the culture of debt among urban youth that Gayatri Jayaraman describes in her book. And the real story is very different from what you’d imagine at first glance
It’s time to ask some tough questions
This Week: Leadership, corporate governance and the Infosys saga; Gorakhpur—a long road to recovery; and living in a tech-dominated world
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