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Absent Nepali agriculture jobs

Absent Nepali agriculture jobs

Without structural reforms the hope of the agriculture sector driving the economy out of the current crisis is misplaced The government has prioritized agriculture in the short-term for economic recovery in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Agriculture has never really taken off in Nepal even though the sector employs around 66 percent of the total employed population, contributing 27.1 percent to the GDP. Most of the labor force engaged in agriculture doesn’t have regular basic income and other supports such as health insurance.

The government policies and programs for 2020/21 focus on boosting investment in agriculture with the goal of […]

How the mafia is taking advantage of the crisis

“I was desperate, I was afraid that I would never be able to open my tavola calda ‘(snack bar)”, business owner Stefano from Foggia in southern Italy reported last week to “Repubblica”. Despite the state guarantee for Corona loans, he no longer received an additional loan from the bank. So he had the help of “friends” who offered him a “quick fix” and 20000 euros.

The money was used to pay his employees’ wages and some supplier bills. “Two weeks later the ‘friends’ came back to me and immediately wanted the 20000 euro back, plus 20000 euro interest . That […]

Europe Needs a Solar Boom Now or Regret Missing Out in a Decade

(Bloomberg) — Europeans need to urgently increase the solar power that their economies generate or face a reckoning with climate change they could regret.

Those are the stark choices outlined by top European Union scientists whose advice will be published by Elsevier BV. They see massive new solar investments not only for the bloc to meet its 2030 climate goals, but also to spur employment and development of automated-manufacturing technologies. Their proposal got a potential lift on Wednesday when the EU made climate-neutrality a key pillar of a historic plan to spur economic growth in the wake of the coronavirus […]

Can the Yang Gang Take Out Frank Pallone?

Can the Yang Gang Take Out Frank Pallone?

Andrew Yang has endorsed Russ Cirincione, a progressive lawyer who promised his toddler that he would protect him from climate disaster, in his Democratic congressional primary contest. Rep. Frank Pallone doesn’t add up for Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate who has endorsed progressive Democratic challenger Russ Cirincione in the primary race. The former Democratic presidential candidate and his political group, Humanity Forward , are endorsing Russ Cirincione , the progressive primary challenger running against Rep. Frank Pallone in New Jersey’s 6th District primary race.

Pallone, once considered a a bold environmental champion has matured into a moderate Democrat, who […]

Stobart selling Aer Lingus seats – but quiet on staffing

Stobart selling Aer Lingus seats - but quiet on staffing

Stobart Air, which operates the Aer Lingus Regional service, is selling seats for flights across its network starting on July 1 – but can’t confirm whether all its staff will be working to operate the services.

Stobart Air has uploaded a bumper schedule to the Aer Lingus website, with flights now bookable on routes from Dublin and Cork to destinations across the UK.

But the Dublin-based carrier hasn’t said if the remainder of its roughly 450 staff will be back at work to run the flights.Only a small number of staff have worked at Stobart Air during the pandemic, operating publicly […]

[ANALYSIS] Free money for every Filipino, at least during emergencies

[ANALYSIS] Free money for every Filipino, at least during emergencies

Economists like to say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But this is the closest thing to it — and we may very well need it. To quell the spread of COVID-19, the Duterte government shut down big chunks of the Philippine economy, in the process erasing thousands — if not millions — of jobs and livelihoods. That is why the government, at the same time, doled out aid through its emergency subsidy program (ESP).

The ESP is arguably the biggest aid distribution program in Philippine history, covering nearly 18 million (or about 3 in 4) Filipino households.

The […]

If there’s another stimulus package, it shouldn’t discourage work

If there's another stimulus package, it shouldn't discourage work

The House Democrats’ $3 trillion stimulus bill is, thankfully, not going anywhere, but if Congress is going to move forward with any additional stimulus plan, not a penny should be approved without first fixing the loopholes which make not working pay so well.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 (CARES Act) extended economic relief in several ways to American workers to bridge the unemployment gap until they could get back to work. An unfortunate unintended consequence of this bill was to create disincentives to work because of overly generous unemployment benefits.

This issue is not hypothetical. It’s […]

Technology, Automation, Loss of Jobs and Universal Basic Income

Technology, Automation, Loss of Jobs and Universal Basic Income

With the rise of automation in the world, there will be an increase in things that look like science fiction (Sci-fi) and at this point, what will humans do? The industrial revolution brought drastic change to human lives while displacing a lot of jobs at that time but scientist have predicted that technology might reach singularity in the next 10 years since the rate of technological advancement has been doubling in last 10 years. Just like the industrial revolution, there is going to be a new revolution and that is going to be Automation (the machine revolution). Source

It […]

Norway basic income

4 point due to a higher labor freedom score. To find out if you qualify, contact the community directly. Since January 2017, a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 have been paid a monthly €560 (£475) , with no requirement to seek or accept employment. Looking forward, we estimate Wages in Norway to stand at 47552. 5. The typical worker earns a higher salary in Norway than in any other country in the world, with Norwegian wage earners taking home more than double the median per-capita global income, a Gallup survey of household incomes published […]

A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND

DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES

Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira

José Ricardo Bezerra NogueiraDepartment of EconomicsUniversidade Federal de PernambucoPrelimminary Version1. IntroductionOver the past few years, interest in Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposals has grownenormously across the world. Gentilini, Grosh and Yemtsov (2020), in a chapter of abook on UBI published by the World Bank (Gentilini, Grosh, Rigolini and Yemtsov,2020), remark that over the last decade alone 91 books were published on the subject,and several pilot programs were implemented around the world. UBI proposals havealso multiplied in the political sphere, playing a role in some electoral campaigns.A UBI is usually conceived of as […]