Rahul Menon

Rahul Menon
Rahul Menon

Rahul Menon is an Assistant Professor at the School of Livelihoods and Development at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad.

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Book Review

Understanding Policy through Economic History

This student-friendly book admirably accomplishes its task of helping the reader understand economic policy changes in India since 1947. It suggests reforms helped the urban rich, but it does not…
▶23-May-2024
Rahul Menon

How Dynamic are India’s Labour Markets?

While policy works to provide more jobs to the unemployed, it must also tackle the deep-seated structural issues in India's urban labour market: long-term unemployment; women exiting the labour…
▶07-Jun-2022
Rahul Menon, Paaritosh Nath

Making Sense of India’s Measures of Unemployment

The co-existence of seasonal and regular employment has posed a challenge over the decades for accurately measuring unemployment in India. An explainer and a discussion in the light of the puzzling…
▶09-Sep-2021
Rahul Menon

Debt and Welfare In A World of Pandemics

Drastic times call for radical measures. Falling tax revenues call for an increase in borrowings by the central government to help states. A failure to do so now could have a negative impact on the…
▶12-May-2020
Rahul Menon