Last Updated:November 21, 2024, 14:32 IST With over 2.3 lakh drivers and more than 50 lakh customers, Namma Yatri now facilitates an average of 1.6 lakh trips daily across Karnataka. In November alone, nearly 500 trips were completed, with 300 drivers already joining the platform. Namma Yatri (NY), the Bengaluru-based mobility app dedicated to empowering … Read more
Consider Anca Gheorghe, a 23-year-old Roma woman from Romania. She attended a poorly resourced school with unqualified teachers and faced unfair discrimination, leaving her with limited opportunities. Left with virtually no other options, she joined an EU-funded vocational program to train as a hairdresser, hoping for financial independence. Yet, there are already enough hairdressers in … Read more
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit in the third quarter of the year 2024 reached SR 30 billion, according to data released by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Finance on Monday, November 4. The date reports revealed that the Kingdom’s oil revenues recorded a growth of 1 percent in the first nine months of 2024, while … Read more
Speaking Dutch is central to this, van den Broeck believes. “Dutch is part of our DNA” as Flemish people, he said. Migration drives shifts “Brussels has always been a multilingual city because it’s centered at the border between the Roman- and the German-speaking territories,” explained VUB researcher Saeys. Waves of migration after World War II … Read more
The ECB has repeatedly argued that consumer spending would increasingly support growth, against a backdrop of slowing inflation and rising real incomes, and it’s likely to take the news as vindicating that argument. At the national level, Germany, Spain and France posted better-than-expected growth, while Italy’s came in below expectations. Ireland performed best, growing 2 … Read more
Getting the IPR framework right now to unleash long-term innovation EU policies adopted in the next five years will be foundational for Europe’s innovative ecosystem to thrive in the long term, improving conditions for the next wave of intellectual property lifecycles that can take over a decade to bear fruit. A smart and strategic policy … Read more
Inflation and job growth could determine the next president. It’s not whether the nation’s economic performance influences voting, it’s what slice of the economy has the most say. Personal finances are very personal. The parts of the business world that sway your checkbook might be inconsequential to others. My trusty spreadsheet looked at seven economic … Read more
While saying “I understand the strength of feeling,” the prime minister continued to insist he wanted to be “looking forward, not back.” He added that he wanted to “move forward together on climate resilience, on education, on trade and on growth to better enable us to address the inequalities of today.” Several nations raised the … Read more
Charles, too, has mellowed his well-known views on issues such as climate change and housing, at least in public, as part of the strict convention of neutrality that comes with being king. His style in the past was far from laid back. One former minister recalled Charles, as prince of Wales, inviting them for tea … Read more
“We have three main policy recommendations,” Koeva-Brooks said, highlighting that the first is “for central banks to pivot towards providing more support to activity where inflation is under control.” By contrast, she added that governments should tighten fiscal policy to draw a line under the emergency measures of the pandemic years, as well as enacting … Read more
