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Jonathan Dingel, Brent Neiman Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home (WFH) has been increasingly implemented in major advanced countries. Before the crisis, the percentage of workers participating working from home was approximately 10% in major advanced countries. The number of workers who conduct their jobs at home increased suddenly in March 2020. But productivity at home compared to the usual workplace – which is a key parameter in assessing the impact of WFH on the e...

Summary On June 15, 2020, Indian and Chinese troops engaged in a brawl that left twenty Indian soldiers dead while causing an unspecified number of Chinese casualties. The clash is a part of a broader border standoff along the Galwan River between the two forces on the Line of Actual Control that is yet to be resolved. The Indian strategic community is broadly in agreement that this border dispute marks an implacable decline in India-China ties. They argue that the very basis of relations that ...

By Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar* Twenty-first Century India is urbanizing at a massive scale. The country is expected to house half of its population in urban areas by the year 2040. Cities, especially the larger ones, have been placed at the centre of the economic growth strategies. However, the increasing pace of urbanisation in India has not been matched by adequate planning, governance and infrastructure development. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed the shor...

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Irina Popova As a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, virtually all public schools in the US closed their doors for in-person instruction for at least some period of time in spring 2020, and many remained closed in the 2020-21 school year. Whether schools are open for in-person (versus remote or hybrid) instruction has been a contentious policy issue. Indeed, the ability of students to attend school in person has become a political flas...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Economists and industry leaders have identified a continuing shortage of skilled labor in all areas in manufacturing for decades, a situation made worse by the aging and retirement of skilled workers of the Baby Boomer generation. The COVID-19 pandemic adds to the loss of manufacturing jobs and lower levels of workforce participation by workers in all age groups, which has contributed further to the “skills gap” in the industry. W...

Miranda Xafa Like the rest of the world, the Greek economy has entered into another deep economic recession in 2020. While the economy appeared to be on a modest recovery from its ‘great depression’ of 2010-2016, it was hit by a new major international economic shock due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Greece appears to have experienced a very deep recession in 2020 and even under optimistic assumptions, a full recovery will take some time beyond 2021. In addition, the recession and the cost of t...

India committed to goal of non-discriminatory, verifiable nuclear disarmament: Foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 05:40 PM IST Share Synopsis India, as a responsible nuclear weapon state, is committed as per its nuclear doctrine, to maintain credible minimum deterrence with the posture of no-first use and non-use against non-nuclear weapon states, he said. Sailors step out of a nuclear submarine that surfaced in Visakhapatnam India, as a responsible nu...

New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): India on Monday reiterated that is a responsible nuclear weapon state and is committed as per its nuclear doctrine of no-first use and non-use against non-nuclear-weapon states.

Updated Feb 22, 2021 | 16:57 IST India is committed to the goal of universal, non-discriminatory and verifiable nuclear disarmament, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said. Nuclear weapon (Pixabay)&nbsp New Delhi: India on Monday reiterated that it would stick to the No First Use (NFU) doctrine against non-nuclear weapon countries. Addressing the high-level segment of the Conference on Disarmament (CD), Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that India is a ...

New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): India as a responsible nuclear weapon state has reiterated its position of no first use of nuclear weapons and said it is committed as per its nuclear doctrine to maintain credible minimum deterrence with the posture of no-first-use and non-use against non-nuclear-weapon states, Foreign Secretary Harsh Shiringla said on Monday.