Amazon has reclaimed the top spot as the world's most valuable brand despite its brand value falling 15 per cent this year from $350.3 billion to $299.3 billion, said a new report. According to brand valuation consultancy Brand Finance's report, "Global 500 2023", while Amazon is back at No 1, its brand value has fallen by over $50 billion this year, with its rating slipping from AAA+ to AAA. This is as consumers evaluate it more harshly in the post-pandemic world. Brand Finance's research has found that perception of customer service at Amazon has fallen - at the same time as delivery times have lengthened.
The report further noted that the top five markets for contingent workforce engagement in the Asia Pacific are India, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore.
India's services sector growth accelerated in April, as strong demand conditions resulted in the fastest increase in new business and output in close to 13 years, a monthly survey said on Wednesday. The pick-up in demand occurred in spite of escalating price pressures. The seasonally adjusted S&P Global India Services PMI Business Activity Index rose from 57.8 in March to 62.0 in April, signalling the fastest expansion in output since mid 2010, amid a pick-up in new business growth and favourable market conditions.
India also fares poorly on maternal mortality rate.
'If we want real democracy, the economy itself will need to be democratised.'
India has been ranked as the most attractive investment destination in the world for the next three years.
Of the nearly 4.6 crore people living as slaves globally, two-thirds, or 3.04 crore, are in the Asia-Pacific region, with the highest number in India.
India has been ranked 52nd in the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2015 compiled by the World Economic Forum.
Volkswagen mess costs Germany its strongest nation brand position.
India is among the worst-performing BRICS nations along with Brazil (ranked even lower than India at 71st this year).
Tamil Nadu says it's intriguing only BJP-ruled states top the list, while industrialised states are given a go-by.
The study claims that from its peak of 18 per cent of gross domestic product in 2008, the crony capitalists' wealth is now down to three per cent
Th report predicted that the world population is to reach eight billion by mid-November 2022.
China accounts for more than one-third of the apparel export market
'Whatever happens in any part of the world affects us.'
In the Upper House of Parliament, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu did not allow adjournment notices moved by opposition members on the issue of price rise, prompting members of the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Left parties, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Nationalist Congress Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Shiv Sena to create an uproar.
Both are finding it difficult to sell one each of their plants -- Chennai Maraimalai Nagar (Ford) and Talegaon near Pune (GM) -- and are finding the road blocked by employee severance snarl-ups, report Sohini Das and Shine Jacob.
Hong Kong is the world's freest economy according to the Index of Economic Freedom 2015.
India ranks low at 105th on human capital index, Finland tops
While Norway tops the list, India's ranking is the lowest among BRICS economies
The country's new economic roadmap highlights the importance of creating a virtuous cycle of investment, savings and exports in order to sustain rapid economic growth over the next five years.
India's retail sector has benefited from the rapid growth in e-commerce
It further said India is facilitating external commercial borrowings by startups in order to encourage innovation and promote ease of doing business.
With an acute shortage of skilled workforce, India has been ranked 83rd globally in terms of talent competitiveness of its human capital.
In India, manufacturing has failed to take off.
In April, the US stopped funding to WHO as the Trump administration reviewed the ties.
India ranks 4th in the 2013 global manufacturing competitiveness index even as the country's growth rate has been pulled down in recent quarters.
On the index, India has a score of 4.52 while that of Switzerland is 5.81
'I am seven months into the job, but it feels like seven years.'
India has entered a 'demographic sweet spot' with half of its population being under the age of 29. This 'demographic dividend' is likely to last for 2-3 decades and provides the government a unique opportunity to harness the vast potential of India's youth, points out Raj Kishore Mishra, the former civil servant turned development professional.
India stands at an embarrassingly low 130 among 190 countries in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings. But in our worry over it are we forgetting the big picture -- to make India an attractive investment destination -- wonders Avirup Bose.
A report by the Azim Premji University showed that during the pandemic 270 million Indians were pushed into poverty. Meaning that they were not poor according to the government poverty line before, but have become now. Aakar Patel mulls on the state of the nation as the Modi government enters its eighth year.
Two years of economic slowdown has pushed the number of people without jobs worldwide to a record 180 million, with little prospect of any improvement in the global employment situation this year: ILO
Stating that the fight against COVID-19 is at the final stage, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday cautioned against letting the guard down before it is completely over and requested states to enhance the vaccination coverage and motivate the over 12 crore beneficiaries who are due for their second dose to take it.
Is there more than meets the eye to Kitex Garments, the world's second-largest children's garment producer, abandoning Kerala for Telangana?
India is ranked lower than all its BRICS peers -- Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa
Besides Surat, which will also be the world's fastest growing city during 2019-35, the other nine cities are Agra, Bengaluru Hyderabad, Nagpur, Tiruppur, Rajkot, Tiruchirappalli, Chennai and Vijayawada.
Speaking at an Assocham event, Modi said the recent cut in corporate tax has brought rates to all-time low for businesses, adding that labour force should also be taken care of.
An article in China's Global Times warned Beijing that China needs to worry about the effect of industrial transfer to India on production chain
Around 700 migrant workers, women and children have lost their lives in this reverse migration. But what is happening today with the migrant labour is only a continuation of the policies pursued by the Modi regime during the last six years. It is not for nothing that India was ranked the most dangerous country in the world for women in 2018 by the Thompson Reuters Foundation poll, points out Rashme Sehgal.
