With the growing feminisation of the gig economy, this article tries to understand how the gig economy has structural gendered problems and how things might evolve or change with policies and ...

This paper reflects upon how the 1971 specific factor model of Ronald W Jones still holds its relevance in the face of growing within-country income inequality that has led to rising discontent for ...

In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, requiring a 43% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by ...

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The recent Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson (henceforth, AJR). The Nobel committee noted that ...

In Rahul Sadasivan’s film Bramayugam, the dynamics of oppression and subjugation are intricately interwoven with the regulation of bodily autonomy.

A close look at the Periodic Labour Force Survey data so far reveals a definite increase in the participation of women, especially in rural India. This optimism fades as this has occurred mostly in ...

In Vesper, the institutional safeguards of civil society have been replaced by the sociopathic figure of the middle person who relays authority through psychological and physical intimidation. The EPW ...

Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Interventions That Made a Difference edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, Neelima Khetan and Jayapadma R V, Gurugram: HarperCollins, 2022; pp 380, `699.

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In the prevailing legal uncertainty over whether gig workers are “employees” of the platform they work on, a recent High Court of Karnataka’s judgment has provided much clarity in the context of the ...