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Audio podcast: Why small savings schemes matter

by admin|10 April 202110 April 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer April 10, 2021 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Recently, the Finance Ministry announced a slashing of interest rates offered by small savings schemes such as the Public Provident Fund...

Audio podcast: India is experiencing labour pains

by admin|20 March 202120 March 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer March 20, 2021 Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer The prolonged lockdown imposed last year pushed India’s urban unemployment rate above 20% for the quarter ending June 2020, according to the Periodic Labour...

Audio podcast: 7 things the finance minister didn’t tell you about Budget 2021

by admin|05 February 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 5, 2021 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. So much was expected from the Union Budget that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented on February 1, 2021. India needs an economic...

Audio podcast: What to expect from Budget 2021

by admin|08 January 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 9, 2021 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Few Budgets would have been as critical as the one Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present on February 1, 2021. India...

Audio podcast: India’s first ever ‘technical recession’

by admin|30 November 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer November 30, 2020 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. India’s economy contracted 7.5% between July and September 2020, coming on the back of a 23.9% contraction in the previous quarter. This...

Audio podcast: We need new economic, political thinking

by admin|15 October 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer October 15, 2020 If ever there was a time for bold, break-out economic and political thinking, it is now. Our economy was tanking even before the pandemic and there is widespread social unrest. Time is running out for...

Audio podcast: Why I created All Indians Matter

by admin|29 September 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer September 30, 2020 Podcast transcript Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. This episode is going live on World Podcasting Day 2020, so today I want to talk about why I launched All Indians...

Audio podcast: A high-stakes, high-altitude standoff

by admin|16 September 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Picture: On Finger 4, north of Pangong Tso lake (above), Indian and Chinese troops were deployed a few hundred metres apart. On its south bank, they were occupying heights that overlooked each other’s camps and vital road links. Podcast transcript...

Audio podcast: Unemployment pandemic could be worse than COVID-19

by admin|07 September 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Podcast transcript Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. As the economy contracts, India’s job crisis expands. As news that the Indian GDP had contracted 23.9% rolled in, it was inevitable that there would be bad news on the jobs...

Modi’s ineptness has left the economy in tatters

by admin|02 September 202002 September 2020|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer September 3, 2020 Narendra Modi rode to power in 2014 claiming he would fix the economy – that wasn’t really broken in the first place – and unleash a wave of prosperity. He spoke often about providing jobs...

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