Digital literacy and the human element will play a major role in the prevention of fraud, as one has to stick to the basics and be vigilent.
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The economic and geopolitical implications could be disruptive due to falling birth rates
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Just as our electronics need to be re-charged, sleep recharges and resets the body, brain and gut for optimal functioning
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The benefits of decentralised finance (DeFi) has to serve all stakeholders, and all types of consumers. Else only the economically stronger section will be able to afford or access it. The DeFi community has to solve for concerns that it is striving to beat the system rather than better the system! Else regulators and governments won’t cede ground. Neither a bit, nor a byte!
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Democracy is not about multiparty elections alone. It is not just about local governmental governance. Democracy thrives when citizens can feel their own citizenry influence, in what they say as feedback and in what they don’t accept.
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It is natural to wonder whether the banks would pass on the rate hike to their customers. The answer is a high probable “yes”. But will they also, raise savings deposit interest rates? Probably not at the same levels as their lending rates, if at all they raise them
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India's trade with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the UAE, was USD 87 billion in 2020-21
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Data is widely regarded as the new oil. As China is finding out, and as the IMF discovered last month, there is no substitute for good data
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In the larger macro context, some of these celebrated startups might have business hiccups and might even fail. It is okay to accept such failures, but not to forget to learn from those failures
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In its last released ‘State Finances 2021-22 report’ the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) noted that the urban local bodies and municipal corporations have “come under severe strain, forcing them to cut down expenditures and mobilise funding
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