Entrepreneurship Gen Z’s Most Favoured Career Choice

Findings of the Outlook Toluna Youth Survey 2022 indicate that India’s youth are increasingly opting for new-age careers over conventional ones and also inclined towards entrepreneurship. But, the pull of conventional career choices remains equally strong

Kamalika Ghosh - July 29, 2022

A Sovereign Guarantee For Jobseekers

The jobs situation in the country is grim. If the Modi government needed a reminder, India’s youth has given it in the form of Agniveer-related protests. Modi’s advisors want him to emulate the much-criticised MGNREGA scheme in urban areas along with universal basic income, an idea that Rahul Gandhi proposed in 2019. Can a job guarantee scheme hit the bull’s eye in towns and cities?

Kamalika Ghosh - June 29, 2022

Stagflation Shadow On The World

Rising inflation, high unemployment and depreciating currencies have given birth to a vicious cycle that could very well dismantle the fragile post-Covid recovery. Can India escape this fate?

Kamalika Ghosh - May 31, 2022

The ones making our lives easier, don’t have it easy themselves

According a Fairwork report, India’s platform economy is riddled with problems of unfair pay and poor working conditions

January 17, 2021

Fixing India’s unemployment through formal job creation

COVID-19 creates a policy window to make India a fertile habitat for formal non-farm job creation 

Manish Sabharwal - August 26, 2020

Harvesting growth, not uncertainty. That is the challenge

India’s agriculture sector will wither away unless the government finds a way to fertilise it

July 11, 2020

Is Work From Home the new normal?

Some companies are planning to wholeheartedly embrace work from home

N Mahalakshmi - May 09, 2020