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Economy

Cities’ economy and the role of urban industrial sectors, local businesses, employment, startups and entrepreneurship, jobs and livelihoods, formal, informal and gig economy.

Fishermen gathering around a boat, about to head to sea
Economy

Winds of change in Mumbai’s fish economy: No, the pandemic isn’t only to blame

December 28, 2021 Radha Puranik

The pandemic has changed the way in which fish is bought and sold in the city. But there are other factors too that have altered the entire fish economy.

View of Bhendi Bazaar from the a newly developed building
Economy

Photo essay: The micro-economies of Bhendi Bazaar

December 16, 2021 Radha Puranik

A photo essay tracing the several micro-economies of Bhendi Bazaar, that make it what it is today and the impact of redevelopment on the community.

Zomato delivery partners sitting by a pavement
Economy

Harsh realities of delivery workers: a discussion

October 27, 2021 Radha Puranik

Experts and delivery workers discuss exploitative practices of food delivery apps, abysmal working conditions and distorted wages.

Zomato delivery partners sitting by a pavement
Economy

Delivery workers prefer to work for smaller companies that offer better work conditions

October 18, 2021 Sabah Virani

Delivery workers of big delivery apps in the country make shifts to smaller companies, citing poor work conditions and wages.

woman carries gas cylinder in Mumbai
Economy

The Plight of Gas Cylinder Delivery Workers

October 5, 2021 Radha Puranik

Cylinder delivery workers are subjected to life threatening work conditions and social exclusion with no laws or regulations in place to protect them.

Mumbai University Building
Economy

Employment worries multiply for recent graduates

September 10, 2021 Radha Puranik

The pandemic has set people back many years in terms of finances and professional goals, and fresh graduates are reconsidering their preferred careers.

snack shop Mumbai
Economy

Want to start a new business in Mumbai? Here’s how to get your trade license

September 8, 2021 Anagha Sawant

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.

Phramacies
Economy

Post-COVID19, convenience stores cum pharmacies mushroom

June 24, 2021 Tasneem Pocketwala

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.

Vaccines
Economy

Has Maharashtra learnt from lockdown 2020? Many say yes.

May 12, 2021 Hepzi Anthony

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.

Economy

Mumbai’s metro lines: opportunity for locating jobs?

April 19, 2021 Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy, Madhav Pai and Kaustubh Chuke

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

Economy

Local businesses hurt, seek equal opportunities to earn a living

April 16, 2021 Boshika Gupta

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

Economy

COVID19 broke the backs of Mumbai’s informal sector workers. What does 2021 hold in store?

December 28, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

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.

Economy

Dharavi women take to street vending to feed families

November 23, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

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

Economy

Dharavi: COVID recovery quick, economic recovery to take time

November 16, 2020 Hepzi Anthony

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

Economy

Can an urban income guarantee scheme reduce unemployment in cities?

November 4, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

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

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