Economy

A traders license is essential to start a new manufacturing and storage unit. Here’s how you can procure one if you are starting a business in Mumbai.

One of the additions to Mumbai’s cityscape since the pandemic erupted is the mushrooming of 24/7 pharmacy-cum-convenience stores seemingly at every other street corner.

The business community in Mumbai was barely recovering from the impact of the earlier lockdown and it cannot afford to go in for complete lockdown yet again.

A different way of looking at creating jobs – by spotting job dense areas around Metro lines.

While the lockdown is relatively minor compared to what business owners witnessed in March 2020, a sense of panic is hard to escape.

If the markets stabilise and the economy grows, we would need to understand if the benefit will extend to the labourers, says a city-based NGO which researched on Mumbai’s informal sector.

There has been a significant increase in street vending during the pandemic. But the hurdles these vendors face have not reduced.

People in Dharavi believe negative media publicity about COVID numbers affected economic recovery of the disease

In 2019, researchers at the Azim Premji University (APU) proposed the creation of a National Urban Employment Guarantee Programme that addresses the problem of unemployment, underemployment and low wages in the informal urban workforce. The

Why do we need to import fish when we have a superior quality locally, such as the local Tuna, Sakla, Ghol, Barracuda, Snapper etc, ask local fishermen.

Microfinance companies threaten debtors to repay loans when there is no employment opportunities. Here’s how women in Chembur dealt with the situation.

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) conducted a rapid assessment in over 20 settlements across Greater Mumbai where low-income communities live and work, and found that they not only face risk of disease, but a threat to basic sustenance in the face of the coronavirus outbreak.