Ishan Anand

Ishan Anand

Ishan Anand teaches economics at IIT Delhi and can be reached at ishan.jsr@yahoo.com.

What does the Data from the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey 2022-23 tell us?

The unit-level data from the 2022-23 consumption survey raises more questions than it answers. The design has a bias that excludes poor households and the methodology makes it non-comparable with…
▶09-Jul-2024
Ishan Anand

Growing Distress and a Falling Unemployment Rate

The Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2019-20 has thrown up some unusual and contradictory patterns in employment and unemployment. However, the trends in the labour market over three years of the…
▶13-Sep-2021
Ishan Anand, Anjana Thampi
Covid-19

Locking out the Working Poor

With more than three-quarters of India’s workforce either self-employed or in casual work, and earning low incomes, the lockdown was bound to devastate their livelihoods. Conditions were poor before…
▶16-Apr-2020
Ishan Anand, Anjana Thampi