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The Nepalese government¿s offer of surrender and rehabilitation to Maoist insurgents¿announced by Foreign Minister Kamal Thapa on December 18, 2003¿¿whose deadline concluded on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the Maoist ¿People¿s War¿, on February 12, 2004, has met with partial success.
The crux lies in reimagining the allocation of funds from the Central government
The UPA's cash transfer scheme, delivering over Rs.3.2 lakh crore in subsidies and welfare programmes to the poor directly to their bank accounts, if executed well would not only reduce poverty faster would curb a lot of the wasteful spending that has fattened vested interests at all levels.
Post-demonetisation campaigning for cashless transactions as way to stamp out black money has been stepped up with cybercrime issue needed to be dealt
The pandemic has highlighted both the increasing significance of cities in the larger national governance ecosystem as also exposed their vulnerabilit
The Maldives and Sri Lanka show how they can bargain with bigger powers to their advantage.
Assembly Elections 2023: There is justice in the poll promises that political parties are making to women voters, whose assertion at the polling booth in terms of turnout and independent choices is only too evident to these parties.
Going without cash is a good idea whereby studies indicate that paying by card or e-money encourages you to spend more than you would otherwise.
India must commit on this World Population Day to do more to tackle the widespread malnourishment and unemployment prevalent amongst Indian youth.
There is a significant difference between the texture of the relationship that the US enjoys with other democracies like UK, Germany, France and Japan, and the one it has with India. And neither are we able to cash in on it to the extent the Chinese and the Pakistanis managed.
While digitalisation has proceeded, cash has not become unimportant.
The crisis in Lebanon has reached a point of desperation evident by the move to remove subsidies for most of the poor
Less-cash economy formalising shared economy, with an impetus to digital payments, is one of the motivations as well as goals of demonetisation
Digital payments are no longer about ensuring that money reaches the intended person or entity. Instead, the data exhaust of the transaction has becom
The goal of Cashless India requires a comprehensive long-term strategy.
A common thread across the turbulences is uneven support from the government for beleaguered institutions and the absence of informed participation.
इस बार के विश्व जनसंख्या दिवस पर भारत को युवाओं के बीच व्य
Most central banks across the globe are today seized with the idea of cryptocurrency, with countries like Sweden and China already embarking on their pilot projects. This paper argues that most of the proposed architectures for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) are not designed to mimic the paper currency in its digital form. It proposes an architecture that largely retains all the properties of a paper currency, with only one limitation—i
Despite numerous government efforts to popularise digital transactions, India continues to be a cash-dependent economy. This is because the transforma
The virus has affected over 25 million people across 213 countries. Governments and citizens alike have had to adapt to the crisis. Pakistan’s story
India's GSLV launch is significant both from the commercial and strategic perspectives. In addition to the large number of domestic satellites ready to be launched using the heavier launch vehicle, a successful launch will also mean India's ability to cash in on the large lucrative foreign satellite launch market.
This paper projects the nationwide and state-wise size of India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) market under various GDP growth scenarios. The market sizes under these scenarios are expressed in monetary values at the scale of both sub-national units and the Indian economy as a whole. With the help of transactions and market share data from Phonepe, a UPI company, the paper estimates the national and state-wise base case scenario market volu
Chinese and not Indian firms will become more prominent in the neighbourhood, cashing in on their willingness and urgency to join OBOR.
There is a strong case to be made for leveraging mobile banking systems in order to increase the quotient of financial inclusion in the country.
PM Modi's push to industries - trucking, agricultural purchases, construction - where wages are still distributed in cash towards digital payments
India is on the path to becoming a cashless society. The Prime Minister's Jan-Dhan Yojana is one more step towards a more developed India. And possibly a big step, if successful.
The bulk of the new banking consumers are digital natives and don’t think of branches as an interface for financial transactions
The demand for cash that all political parties have to contest elections has been the fountainhead that has created a bureaucratic, military and defence decision-making structure which ensures that we keep running at the same place when it comes to creating a vibrant military industry complex in the country.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi waived agricultural loans and provided cash transfers. It won the Assembly election earlier this month by a landslide.
As we move more towards a cash-flow based system of lending, companies are building their own risk assessment models for borrowers using both payment
Despite six months of Taliban’s catastrophic rule, the international community continues to turn a Nelson’s eye.
The Democratic Party of Japan ( DPJ ) has been in power for about a year and a half. Despite scoring a landslide victory in the House of Representatives election in August 2009, the ruling party has failed to cash in on this great opportunity.
The election would conclusively indicate if the state prefers to align with the old formations which are local, less resourceful and more on the centr
Giving huge amounts of cash subsidies in the developed countries also distorts market. Lowering the actual cost of production artificially, these countries have produced mountains and lakes of agricultural products which are then dumped in international markets which lower the prices.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s masterstroke through demonstisation aiming to choke the cash channels of black money seems to have many positive cons
एक ओर केरल काजू उद्योग में लगातार तेजी से आगे ब रहा है, लेक�
भारत भी अपने यहां ‘क्रिप्टोकरेंसी’ के संचालन पर रोक लगान
पाठवलेले पैसे इच्छित व्यक्ती किंवा समूहापर्यंत पोहोचविण्यापुरती आता डिजिटल पेमेन्ट्स उरली नसून, तो माहितीचा ‘नवा व्यापार’ बनतो आहे.
सरकारों को रोकथाम के उपाय तय करने की दिशा में कार्य करना च
गरिबांसाठी असलेल्या आर्थिक सवलती काढून टाकण्याच्या हालचालीमुळे लेबनॉनमधील आर्थिक संकट बिकट टप्प्यावर पोहोचले आहे.
देश पातळीवरील प्रशासकीय व्यवस्थेत शहरांचे महत्त्व किती आहे, हे कोरोनाच्या साथीमध्ये ठळकपणे समोर आले आहे. त्याचबरोबर, त्यातील धोकेही उघड झाले आहेत.
