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India’s notification of the Code on Social Security, which formally includes gig and platform workers and calls for the creation of a Social Security Fund partly financed through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) contributions, is an encouraging step in the country’s ongoing struggle to define the relationship between capitalism and welfare. As Indian society still grapples…
Last week, the Government of India notified 4 new labour market codes covering Social Security, Wages, Industrial Relations and Workplace Safety. These had been enacted pre-Covid but delays in implementation at the state level slowed enforcement. These codes will now replace the 29 existing central labour laws. This reform is significant for the following reasons….
India’s drive to reach its ambitious renewable energy targets – 500 GW non-fossil capacity by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2070 demands is witnessing broad-based participation from corporations. Leading companies as well as start-ups are setting new benchmarks in renewable adoption, signalling that India Inc. is stepping up to support the government’s transition agenda. India’s…
Chairman of Adani Group, writing on the Google-Adani project to build an AI and data centre complex in Visakhapatnam, argues India will benefit at multiple levels & all data will be kept here The $15bn partnership between Google and the Adani Group to develop India’s largest AI and data centre hub in Visakhapatnam represents a…
Stablecoins have quietly grown into systemically relevant money-like instruments. By October 2025, their total supply surpassed $300 billion, led by USDT and USDC — a scale rivalling major money-market funds: 24/7, API-enabled, and dollar-denominated. India, meanwhile, runs one of the world’s most ambitious retail CBDC pilots — the e₹, alongside deepening real-time cross-border links like…
A study of World History shows that Human progress across centuries has been a witness to great disparity of income and wealth between the Upper Class and the Lower Class of citizens (with different strata of people in each class). Before the Industrial Revolution, the disparities of Income and Wealth appear to be very high. …
If ocean policy is the map, finance is the current that carries the blue economy forward. Welcome back to the Blue Horizons series. In Part 1, we explored policies and ESG alignment. Now it’s time to talk about what everyone-from investors to innovators-really wants to know:How do we fund this transformation without sinking under the weight of…
Diversity is more than representation. It’s about the valuable insights and unique perspectives that collaborative thinking brings, especially with people from different backgrounds, cultures, or disciplines. Diversity at its best fosters unconventional thinking. Research consistently demonstrates the positive impact of diverse teams. A study by McKinsey & Company found that companies in the top quartile for gender…
Diversity is more than representation. It’s about the valuable insights and unique perspectives that collaborative thinking brings, especially with people from different backgrounds, cultures, or disciplines. Diversity at its best fosters unconventional thinking. Research consistently demonstrates the positive impact of diverse teams. A study by McKinsey & Company found that companies in the top quartile for gender…
The development of cryptocurrency policy in the United States has been a complex journey. Over more than a decade, U.S. regulators and lawmakers have wrestled with how to balance innovation and consumer protection, how to delineate agency jurisdiction, and how to respond to recurring crises in crypto markets. After years of overlapping guidance and enforcement…
