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Circular economy goes around in circles
February 27, 2021
Every decade or so, roughly, corporate boardrooms come up with new buzzwords that are meant to define not just how the world would evolve and what the world needs, but also, more crucially how they are becoming or already have become very responsible corporate citizens despite al...
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India on the backfoot at WEF 2020 in Davos
January 29, 2020
At the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the usual star of the show, India, was on the defensive, unlike the previous years and notably in 2018 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the plenary speech, becoming the first Indian leader to del...
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Income inequality remains a major challenge in India
January 16, 2017
India, with a population of over 1.26 billion, emerges as a testimony of income and wealth inequality as per a recent study conducted by Oxfam India. The richest 1 pc in the country owns 58 pc of the total wealth in the country.
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Erdogan offers ray of hope to Syrian refugees
February 7, 2016
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered a glimmer of hope even as thousands of fresh Syrian refugees arrive at the border with Turkey, fleeing the increasing fighting in and around northern Syrian town and rebel stronghold of Aleppo. Delivering the concluding speech at ...
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