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However, interest-rate-sensitive sectors such as home improvement are suffering the largest sales declines, according to weekly credit-card spending data. Housing prices also are…
COVID-19 has affected all 50 states unevenly, so the starting points for recovery vary. Twenty-one states have this month recorded their highest 7-day average of new cases, many…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256993
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The demonstrations first began on July 7 but died down in recent days. Riding the wave of dissent, the provincial council of oil-rich Basra province voted on July 22 to begin the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB236417
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China's services sector.
Job-creation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration.
The union represents some 340,000 workers at UPS, the largest US package delivery company. The United States is experiencing a rise in strikes and work stoppages espite low union…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280183
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As the need for cheap and low-skilled labour falls, wage differentials between Africa and other regions will cease to be a major draw for multinational firms and foreign…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB261723
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Not only has the range of software services provided widened, but a host of other services are being delivered remotely and in person through digital platforms to Indian…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262194
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The recovery of the US labour market still lags that of the economy overall, although it mirrors its bifurcation. While the COVID-19 recession has ended for high-wage workers, job…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB265291
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These factors are stoking the urban civil unrest that has flared across the country in the last fortnight. What had seemed a practical matter of managing COVID-19 and…