The Business Times
business-time-50

India might finally get jobs data that economists can use

google-preferred-sourceAdd BT as a preferred source
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Mumbai

IN India, unemployment data are more useful to historians than economists.

While China is joining the US and Brazil in moving towards monthly figures to take the pulse of their economies, the latest jobs numbers in India are at least a year old. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is now weighing a proposal to start work on a quarterly report.

IndiaEconomists

TRENDING NOW

Handled passively, satellite connectivity becomes a service that the telco distributes, while somebody else sets the economics.

When every phone becomes a satellite phone, what happens to Asia’s telcos?

Singapore Exchange CEO Loh Boon Chye notes that the recent market revival is due not to any single factor, but the “whole ecosystem coming together”.

‘SGX needs to be better understood,’ says CEO Loh Boon Chye

Anytime Fitness Asia has a network of over 600 clubs across markets including Singapore, the Philippines and Hong Kong.

Anytime Fitness Asia’s owner said to weigh US$400 million sale

Two decades ago, DBS shares were changing hands at around S$14 a pop. Now, they are around S$75.

The best time to buy bank shares

Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
View More