Cities are complicated organizations all over the world but Indian cities suffer the friendly fire of being policy orphans for three reasons. Firstly, State Chief Ministers are unwilling...

GST and demonetisation have real economic risks like skill hysteresis, demand deferring, and informal employment cratering. But thankfully, demonetisation’s biggest human risks are unrealised; there’s been no change...

2. Creating future workforce: building human capital is a long term investment. Like any investment, there are initial costs. For on-the-job training, these costs include the time devoted...

The impact of this loss is clearly on employability of the graduates. Employers are frustrated that fresh engineering graduates lack practical exposure but have a vast and, most...

Students at Christ University and New Horizon College of Engineering did not expect that they had to fly drone-like, remote-controlled inflated balloons. That was how USbased digital marketing...

The meeting discussed various aspects of the state’s skill development mission, including skill mapping, infrastructure, capacity building, skill upgradation and courses for employability and entrepreneurship. The meeting also...

Finally, a relentless focus on governance—the allocation of decision rights—is crucial to building enduring institutions. The relative role of government, founders, funders, faculty, alumni and regulators needs to...

The enterprises have hailed the move to tackle black money circulation in the economy and expect that it will provide benefits to the sector in the long run....

These faultlines murder high-paying formal private jobs and we need three regulatory interventions: Faster urbanisation, lower regulatory cholesterol, and broader human capital. Faster urbanisation means an increase to...

The other the finalists of the Telstra Business Woman in Asia Award are: Anu Sheela Themudu from iGene (Malaysia), Beth Lui from APEC Schools (the Philippines), Gabrielle Costigan...

Sharma says while traditionally most rural women have been working independently on their farmlands and continue to do so; many service sectors such as IT / ITeS, Ecommerce,...

Inconvenience: This is a real short-term pain but the amount of tears shed by rich people for the inconvenience of poor people and farmers would probably fill an ocean....