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India needs to be cleverer in lifting lockdown: Raghuram Rajan tells Rahul
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan on Thursday said that unemployment numbers are really worrying and India needs to be "cleverer" about lifting the lockdown.
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G-20 advanced economies to contract by 5.8 pc with COVID-19 restrictions:
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): Moody's Investors Service has lowered its 2020-21 real GDP forecasts for all G-20 economies on the ground that economic costs of coronavirus crisis amid the near shutdown of the global economy are accumulating rapidly.
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Number of new unemployed people in Israel amid COVID-19 outbreak exceeds 1
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel], April 27 (ANI): The number of new unemployed workers in Israel, since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in the country, has reached 1,011,205 , Xinhua news ageny reported citing Israel Employment Service on Sunday.
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Govt should provide Rs 7,500 per month for three months to those who lost
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 26 (ANI): CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has targeted the Central government over its handling of COVID-19 lockdown in the country and demanded that the government transfer Rs 7,500 per month, for the next three months, to the accounts of people who lost the
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COVID-19 crisis a wake-up call to strengthen social protection systems: IL
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 25 (ANI): Governments together with social partners and other stakeholders should use the COVID-19 crisis as a wake-up call to strengthen their social protection systems, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.
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Main aim to bring progress in rural India: Aahwahan Foundation
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India] April 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): Founded in year 2009, Aahwahan Foundation, a Non-Government Organization (NGO) aiming to bring equality in the society through its various measures focused on eradicating poverty, unemployment, women inequality and promoting girl's educa
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Unemployment likely to rise, imperative to provide Rs 7,500 to each family
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 23 (ANI): Asserting that 12 crore people have lost their jobs in the first phase of the lockdown, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said that it is imperative for the government to provide them with immediate financial assistance to each family t
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Covid - 19: The Economy, where to?
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): What kind of world will emerge post Covid-19? Never in the history of mankind has our planet suffered such pain. No country has been spared and over four billion people are under lockdown. Will it be business as usual once Covid-19 disappers and the man ha
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Australia to keep coronavirus restrictions for 4 more weeks despite recove
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], April 16 (ANI): Restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus could be eased next month, prime minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, preparing to develop new policies to "super-charge" the Australian economy to drive down unemployment and fix the fede
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IMF urges countries to spend all they can during coronavirus pandemic
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 16 (ANI): IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has outlined the difficult economic environment countries are facing because of the COVID-19 epidemic and her global plan of action to take it on.
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COVID-19 to erase nearly a decade of oil demand growth this year: IEA
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], April 15 (ANI): The coronavirus crisis could erase almost a decade of oil demand growth in 2020 as countries around the world effectively shut down in response to the pandemic, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.
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Actor Bella Thorne waives off April rent for tenants during downturn
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], April 9 (ANI): American actor Bella Thorne is giving the tenants at her property in Sherman Oaks, California a break due to high unemployment amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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