Food delivery startups in India have been struggling to make financial sense for years. They have each lost as much as $50 million a month to win and sustain customers by offering discounts. And unlik
Video: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on July 9, 2020 calls for efforts to tackle the health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). (Xinhua) "As COVID-19 con
Today, the U.S. exceeded three million COVID-19 cases and 132,000 deaths. In several states, new hotspots have rolled back plans to reopen businesses. The novel coronavirus has — and will continue — t
Workers in food and accommodation, and wholesale and retail trade, are the hardest hit for having the least "teleworkable" jobs, with the poor, the young and women bei
Airbus deliveries rose by 50 percent in June compared with May and reached their highest level since the coronavirus crisis spread to Europe in March, but the accelerating recovery failed to preve
"In the matter of three months, we have wiped out all the improvements in the labor market [which] took 10 years to achieve."That's the OECD's Stefano Scarpetta, who we spoke to after the development
The number of foreign medical graduates from Muslim-majority countries coming to the United States to become doctors has declined by 15 percent under the Trump administ
When Manatee founder Damayanti Dipayana’s brother was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, the family took all the steps to ensure that he was properly cared for. All of the things that coul
Editor's note: COVID-19: Economic Analysis is a series of articles comprising experts' views on developing micro and macroeconomic situations around the globe amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The COVID-
Members of the New York Immigration Coalition hold a news conference in Foley Square, to talk about the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold U.S. President Donald Trump's Muslim ban, in June 201
Northflank, a startup from a couple of guys in their 20s, has been working on a full-stack DevOps platform in the cloud since their first year at university in 2016. Today the startup announced a $2.6
OwnBackup has made a name for itself primarily as a backup and disaster recovery system for the Salesforce ecosystem, and today the company announced a $50 million investment.Insight Partners led the
The UK government has responded to a call from the chief executive of the National Health Service in England for urgent reform to the social care sector.Sir Simon Steve
Italy has demonstrated strong cohesion in its social fabric during the coronavirus pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) stated on Friday. Despite the over 240,000 positive cases re
The novel coronavirus delayed the arrival of seasonal immigrants who normally help harvest U.S. wheat, leaving farmers to depend on high school students, school bus drivers, laid-off oilfield work
Ad measurement company DoubleVerify announced this morning that it has a new: CEO Mark Zagorski, who was most recently president and COO of adtech company Rubicon Project.DoubleVerify’s previou
Lowering taxes and raising duty-free quotas, China has taken concrete steps in line with a master plan released on June 1 to build the southern island province of Hain