Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India's youth need. We need a different kind of growth, one based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban…
Global Studies programmes are in favour across the world. Their worth in being able to make students engage with contemporary challenges requires a deeper focus on actually existing forms of…
Union Government policies, budget cuts, and technological changes to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee programme have made things harder for workers in Telangana, where earlier…
Individual investors are entering the market like never before, investing heavily in small cap funds. These outlays, promoted by TV commentators and influencers, and facilitated by easy-to-use apps,…
Despite the Ministry of Rural Development not always being helpful, Tamil Nadu has managed the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme better than many other states. But much remains to be done if…
In a poor state where NREGA can be a form of security for casual workers, reduced funding and the centre’s insistence on the use of inappropriate technologies, and an insensitive state bureaucracy…
The PLFS for 2022-23 reports the highest workforce participation rate and the lowest unemployment rate in the last six years. This has been the result of the entry of an increasing number of women…
While the connection between GDP and job growth in India has been poor, there has been a rapid increase of women in the modern services; while there has been greater job mobility, this has been very…
Disagreement about Russia and the Ukrainian war have stymied consensus on broader issues at the G20. Neutral presidencies like India's will make the grouping trudge along, but just that.
