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Demographic Transition: India’s Emerging Silver Economy
The approach towards elderly support that prioritises family and...
Beyond Balance Sheet: Strategic role of CFOs in insurance industry
True leadership in finance is not just about preserving value, it...
Re-thinking well-being : How outlooks on life are changing in Asia
Prudential commissioned Economist Impact to write a report exploring how people in Asia, at a time of heightened uncertainty, assess different aspects of their well-being, including their physical and mental health, personal finances, social lives, and interaction...
ANALYSIS-As world’s poor face ‘compounding crises’, what could curb risks?
The number of people in need of humanitarian aid globally has tripled in the last half-decade, to 340 million, said, David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid and development organisation About 90% of those live in just...
Climate Risks: Booming demand for ACs to aggravate soaring temperatures
Demand for air conditioners is surging in markets where both incomes and temperatures are rising, populous places like India, China, Indonesia and the Philippines and expanding AC coverage too quickly also threatens to worsen the crisis it’s responding to. Most units...
Fragile Himalayas: Unchecked pilgrimage, construction in Uttarakhand spell disaster for the region
Environmentalists point to the road expansion project as another factor posing a serious risk to the stability of the region, already highly prone to climate-driven disasters, experts say. Crumbling mountainsides, sinking towns and untrammelled construction. It is...
Climate Change: Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide
In a new report linking rainfall deficits to higher farmer suicide rates in India's drought-prone states, researchers said climate change was making "agriculture an extremely risky, potentially dangerous and loss-making endeavour" By Roli Srivastava and Bhasker...
Demographic Dividend: India races to get rich before it gets old as population surpasses China’s
Health care is just one illustrative pressure point. Today, India has about five hospital beds per 10,000 people. The ratio in China is about eight times that, and analysts say India will take decades just to reach the level where China currently stands A fleeting...
Health for all: WHO calls for urgent efforts to bridge gaps accentuated by Covid
Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh,Regional Director for South-East Asia,WHO ''In 2017, around 299 million people in the South-East Asia region faced catastrophic health spending, and an estimated 117 million people in the region were pushed or further pushed below the...
Inclusion, diversity top driver of benefit strategies offered by companies: Survey
The survey further revealed that an increasing number of companies are now moving towards offering programmes under lifestyle risk management and target specific conditions. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes are the major social wellbeing initiatives...
Women having their own source of income are more likely to own insurance:ICICI Lombard Report
Sanjeev Mantri, executive director, ICICI Lombard General Insurance said, “As data shows only a small percentage of women in India consider general insurance a priority. This highlights the need for more awareness and education on general insurance among women in...
Gigs, scams, ghost work: India tech sector’s dark side
In his job, Saurav - who asked to go by one name to protect his identity - called people in the United States, enticed them to sign up for loans and insurance policies, then told them they needed to improve their credit score by paying $50-$100. Only, he did not work...