US net neutrality advocates hold onto slim hope that Congress might overturn the FCC’s decision to scupper net neutrality provisions; meanwhile, India adopts some of the strongest net neutrality protections in the world.
Read more...As Bernie Sanders’s proposal for a federal job guarantee attracts criticism, it is worth mulling India’s successful rural job guarantee program, enacted in 2005.
Read more...The fast fashion cycle continues to accelerate, as sustainability concerns fall to the wayside. Algorithms are trotted out as a panacea for products that embed an offensive message.
Read more...The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a major plastic accumulation zone located between California and Hawaii, is growing at a rate greater than previously believed, according to a new scientific paper published last week.
Read more...Politicians and economists are meeting at Davos, but as times change, does neoliberalism retain its cachet?
Read more...Interview with Erik Solheim, on agenda for UN Environment Assembly, starting tomorrow, that will discuss measures to clean up the oceans.
Read more...India’s Aadhaar universal identification number scheme, including biometrics, is no viable model for replacing Social Security numbers.
Read more...One year after India launched its demonetization debacle, the economy remains cash based, and Modi has yet to pay politically.
Read more...Cash withdrawals from Indian ATM machines are nearly back to the level of just before Modi’s demonetization shock.
Read more...Forbes thinks that emerging markets consumers might save the planet from fast fashion folly. Ahem. I’m not so sure.
Read more...India’s demonetization exercise was for naught, with the RBI reporting last week a scant 1% of banned notes not converted into new currency.
Read more...The myth of the virtues of markets is past its sell-by date. Time for a new guiding principle, and the New Deal may be the place to start.
Read more...Shell CEO calls on Trump not to renounce Paris climate accord, but if the US does, other efforts- e.g. Chinese, Indian– will loom larger.
Read more...Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...The benefits of capitalism are accruing even more to a very few at the top.
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