November 2025
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What Employers and Employees Must Know About Urban Jobs and Skills by 2030?
By 2030, urban labour markets will be shaped by three force multipliers: automation (especially AI), continued urbanization, and intensified cross-border and internal migration. Together they will reallocate work across cities, alter wage structures, and rewrite the skills playbook for both employers and employees. Employers face the paradox of higher talent shortages and higher automation potential…
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SDG 11: A case study of Sustainable Urban Development in Pune
Urbanization is rapidly transforming social, economic, and environmental landscapes across the world. Cities have emerged as engines of innovation, cultural exchange, and economic opportunity, yet they also confront persistent challenges ranging from inequality and congestion to ecological degradation and climate risk Recognizing this complexity, the United Nations established Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), which…
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2035 Urban India: Where Will People Live, Work, and Invest?
India stands on the brink of one of the greatest urban transformations in human history. Over the next decade and beyond, unprecedented flows of population, capital, and economic activity are set to reshape where and how Indians live and work. For businesses, investors, urban planners, and residents alike — the big question is: where will…
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Achieving SDG 11 of Urbanisation’s Progress,Challenges, and Policy Innovations in the Philippines
Cities are more than concrete landscapes they are living stories of people’s dreams, hopes, and resilience. In the Philippines, this story is being rewritten through a collective commitment to build inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable communities, in alignment with Sustainable Development Goal 11. With around 48% of its population now living in urban areas, Philippines…
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Diving into the concept of Gini Coefficient and the Story It tells
We’ve all felt it. You see a news report about a CEO’s nine-figure bonus in the same broadcast that features a story on rising food bank usage. You walk past a gleaming skyscraper on your way to a crumbling public school. This feeling this sense of a gap is a basic human observation. We are…
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Why Don’t We Measure Equality? Rethinking the Methodology of SDG 10
The global development community has spent decades quantifying inequality of income, wealth, education, opportunity, and social mobility. From the Gini Coefficient to Theil Index, Palma Ratio, and Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition, we have built sophisticated tools to capture how unequally resources are distributed. But rarely do we ask a deceptively simple question: why do we measure inequality,…