The fledgling online delivery platforms are suddenly facing a shortage of delivery partners. Why are gig workers in such a short supply? How is this affecting food delivery and quick commerce firms?
Expectations play an important role in decision-making. Enterprises and the financial markets, for example, allocate funds that reflect their expectations
The improvement in sentiments during the early months of 2022 essentially reflects an increase in the proportion of households that believe that their current household incomes are better than they we
The delinking of activities from employment status allows a better understanding of what the unemployed do, or as CPHS informs us, what is the nature of occupation of the unemployed
While equity markets react to budget announcements in real time, households we believe, take a little longer to digest it. Households are not as cued in as financial markets are
By upgrading or augmenting skills, equipping modern tools for better efficiency, people at gig jobs can earn more, some becoming even micro-entrepreneurs
At a time like this when the poor are barely beginning to get their household economy together, any weakening of their twin lifelines - free rations and MNREGA - would be grossly insensitive
In all the major labour market metrics, it is rural India that shows big improvements. Labour conditions improved in urban India also but not as much as they did in rural India