Non recourse state

In 2019, non-food retailers in Germany had still recorded an increase in sales of 3.2 percent. According to Germany's Statistical Office (Destatis), it had been the tenth consecutive year of growth. This year, HDE is expecting that COVID-19 would drive insolvencies of non-food retailers to up to 10,000. … [Read more...] about Non-food retailers in Germany likely to lose 40 bln euros in sales in 2020

"Through today's government decision and normative act, the obligation to use non-medical masks or protective barriers to protect against COVID-19 transmission will be an obligation for every individual in all indoor spaces, in public and non-public administration, in public transport, offices, elevators, shopping malls, shops, supermarkets, markets and service units," Manastirliu said. … [Read more...] about Albanian gov’t imposes fine on non-masks-wearing people in indoor spaces

This is best illustrated in the approach to agriculture and growth. Consider the following: First, where agriculture has been invested in, agricultural surplus has played an important role in driving industrialisation and moving people off the farm. The history of India’s industrial hubs such as Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, which grew on the back of agrarian capital are testimony to this. Second, half of India’s manufacturing value addition and off-farm employment (Census 2011) is in rural areas. Third, urbanisation is fuelled by changing economic patterns in these rural areas as non-farm employment increases. Half of India’s new urban population growth between 2001-2011 (Census 2011) is in these rural areas that morphed into towns. Agriculture, non-farm rural and urbanisation are inextricably linked. In the policy preoccupation with moving people out of agriculture, the economic narrative failed to recognise these interlinkages treating agriculture as a residue, a drag on … [Read more...] about Build a new economic imagination

The government notified the Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure) Rules, 2020, on May 18 and allowed different categories of non-locals, including non-local government employees, to register for domicile certificates. This was not possible prior to the August 5, 2019 decision to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. … [Read more...] about Applications for domicile certificates gather pace in Jammu

On Wednesday, Bihar reported total COVID-19 deaths as 157 and total positive cases as 20,173. However, the number of total recoveries has been 13,533 with a recovery rate of 67.08% . A health department bulletin said the total active cases yet has been 6,482. … [Read more...] about Bihar BJP chief tests positive for COVID-19