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What Are the Implications of India's Economic Crisis?
14 Sep 2019
Any process of economic growth or transformation is not good enough unless it has adequate employment as one of its central objectives.
Ranjini Basu
Economic Slump: Busting Official Myths on Consumer Preferences
14 Sep 2019
Data confirms an acute demand crisis in rural India and beyond.
Prabir Purkayastha
The Big Decline: Sales of Biscuits, Briefs and Bikes Have All Dropped
13 Sep 2019
Economists and business heads are wondering if it’s time to use the dreaded R-word: Recession.
Jai Vipra
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
02 Jul 2019
The central problem with Libra is not that it is not decentralized; it is that it is not accountable to all the people that it will affect.
Prabir Purkayastha
Global Capital, Digital Monopolies and New Forms of Enclosure
15 Jun 2019
The sharing economy is the enclosure of personal property by digital monopolies and creating a new form of casual labour.
Newsclick Report
Ola, Uber, Foodpanda are Some of the Worst Employers, Finds Study
02 Apr 2019
Twelve of India’s most successful technology-based startups were ranked on the overall working conditions for their drivers and delivery persons. The results indicate they do not care much about…
Prabir Purkayastha
Global Rich Gathered in Davos to Push for Rules Enabling Digital Colonisation
26 Jan 2019
They talk about what the shift of these discussions, which should ideally take place at World Trade Organization, to the WEF signify.
Praneta Jha
Ola and Uber Drivers Continue Facing The Same Old Problem, And Then Some More
20 Mar 2018
Drivers of Ola and Uber — the app-based taxi aggregator companies — have once again gone on strike, this time in Mumbai.
Mehreen Kasana, AlterNet
A Majority of Uber and Lyft Drivers Earn Far Less Than Minimum Wage: Report
04 Mar 2018
MIT finds motorists make an average of $3.37 per hour—before taxes.
IANS
Uber Paid $100,000 to Hackers Who Breached their Servers in 2016
22 Nov 2017
The breach included the names and driver's license numbers of around 600,000 drivers in the US and some personal information of 57 million Uber users around the world.