Post Pandemic Economy

The fall in prices follow two record-breaking years in rough diamond sales. In 2021 and 2022, demand for natural diamond jewellery was at an all-time high.

Instead, 2022 was marked by a new war, record inflation and climate-linked disasters. It was a "polycrisis" year, a term popularised by historian Adam Tooze.

For the second year, the pandemic reshaped the world - not changing everything, but accelerating many things, from population decline to rising debt & digital revolution. Here is how these trends could define the fortunes of the world, and of India.

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das: Reserve Bank will continue to address the concerns of over-indebtedness of micro finance borrowers.

Amazon, one of the biggest winners of the pandemic, posted record profits and signalled that consumers would keep spending in a growing US economy and converts to online shopping are not likely to leave.

The minister also urged other urea companies to follow suit and set up oxygen plants wherever possible, and stated that this is a time to fight the pandemic together and with full strength.

India's economy has suffered more than most from the pandemic and so have its people. The country has lost more than a year's worth of growth and perhaps a decade's progress in its efforts to reduce poverty. The economic contraction - the first in India since the 1970s - has put pressure on its government like so many others to respond.

The entire episode of the global pandemic has been a challenging one for everyone. With businesses and economy worst affected, the Indian automobile sector too was impacted by the deadly coronavirus outbreak. As things are improving gradually towards the new normal, the Indian auto industry is slowly yet steadily recovering from the crisis. Maruti ...

With social distancing becoming the new normal in the COVID era there is an increasing demand for personal mobility. However, the impact of the pandemic on the economy is also expected to affect the buying pattern of the consumer with an increasing focus on the pre-owned car market, and this is true in the case of luxury car segment as well.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has apparently decided that this is the right time to assert dominance and territorial expansionism when the global economies are reeling with the side-effects of a deadly pandemic, but instead of just rolling over, a growing number of nations are fighting back, the New York Post reported.

Developing Asia, a group of 45 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, is expected to post growth of just 0.1 per cent in 2020, ADB said in a report

The gradual reopening of India's economy after a 43-day coronavirus lockdown has been marred by a hyper-centralization of decision-making. Deepening mistrust between New Delhi and the 28 states threatens to splinter the country's common market of 1.3 billion people, its biggest draw for investors.

Last month, Twitter dialed back its financial guidance as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has dealt a blow to the global economy and advertising, which makes up the bulk of its revenues.

The rating agency noted that India is likely to post dismal economic growth this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The meeting lasted for three hours and the answer to the billion dollar question for the Indian economy - will the most draconian lockdown in the world be lifted - is still not clear. Chary of uncontrollable community spread of the infectious pandemic, the centre and the states are proceeding with huge caution.

The fall in prices follow two record-breaking years in rough diamond sales. In 2021 and 2022, demand for natural diamond jewellery was at an all-time high.

Instead, 2022 was marked by a new war, record inflation and climate-linked disasters. It was a "polycrisis" year, a term popularised by historian Adam Tooze.

For the second year, the pandemic reshaped the world - not changing everything, but accelerating many things, from population decline to rising debt & digital revolution. Here is how these trends could define the fortunes of the world, and of India.

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das: Reserve Bank will continue to address the concerns of over-indebtedness of micro finance borrowers.

Amazon, one of the biggest winners of the pandemic, posted record profits and signalled that consumers would keep spending in a growing US economy and converts to online shopping are not likely to leave.

The minister also urged other urea companies to follow suit and set up oxygen plants wherever possible, and stated that this is a time to fight the pandemic together and with full strength.

India's economy has suffered more than most from the pandemic and so have its people. The country has lost more than a year's worth of growth and perhaps a decade's progress in its efforts to reduce poverty. The economic contraction - the first in India since the 1970s - has put pressure on its government like so many others to respond.

The entire episode of the global pandemic has been a challenging one for everyone. With businesses and economy worst affected, the Indian automobile sector too was impacted by the deadly coronavirus outbreak. As things are improving gradually towards the new normal, the Indian auto industry is slowly yet steadily recovering from the crisis. Maruti ...

With social distancing becoming the new normal in the COVID era there is an increasing demand for personal mobility. However, the impact of the pandemic on the economy is also expected to affect the buying pattern of the consumer with an increasing focus on the pre-owned car market, and this is true in the case of luxury car segment as well.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has apparently decided that this is the right time to assert dominance and territorial expansionism when the global economies are reeling with the side-effects of a deadly pandemic, but instead of just rolling over, a growing number of nations are fighting back, the New York Post reported.

Developing Asia, a group of 45 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, is expected to post growth of just 0.1 per cent in 2020, ADB said in a report

The gradual reopening of India's economy after a 43-day coronavirus lockdown has been marred by a hyper-centralization of decision-making. Deepening mistrust between New Delhi and the 28 states threatens to splinter the country's common market of 1.3 billion people, its biggest draw for investors.

Last month, Twitter dialed back its financial guidance as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has dealt a blow to the global economy and advertising, which makes up the bulk of its revenues.

The rating agency noted that India is likely to post dismal economic growth this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The meeting lasted for three hours and the answer to the billion dollar question for the Indian economy - will the most draconian lockdown in the world be lifted - is still not clear. Chary of uncontrollable community spread of the infectious pandemic, the centre and the states are proceeding with huge caution.