Best of BS Opinion: Use of tech data, fuss over income inequality, more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Value from data, and the unhealthy fuss over inequality. Today’s reading

Ajay Kumar talks of empowering people to monetise their data in a legal and regulatory framework.

Rama Bijapurkar: There is a gap between aspiration and opportunity. This gap needs to be tapped.

The first edit argues some of the standard prescriptions for employment may not work in coming years. The second edit says Europe’s Digital Markets Act could lead to innovation, benefiting consumers

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We were doing reforms chupke chupke. The reason was (Narasimha) Rao, (Manmohan) Singh and people around them had not even convinced their own party (Congress). So it was not the Congress that did the reforms... In fact, the party got so upset with Rao that they actually voted him out.

 

 

 

Author Gurcharan Das