A Nation Stuck Between Missing Jobs and Growth Ambitions
India grapples with a job crisis fuelled by factors including high youth unemployment, educational and skill imbalance and low female participation, among others. In their book, The Elephant Moves: India’s New Place in the World, Amitabh Kant and Amit Kapoor explore India’s economic evolution through the lens of competitiveness, stressing the need for, and challenges to, policy changes in its run to becoming a developed economy by 2047
March 01, 2024
The Social And Economic Cost Of Workers’ Migration
The poor availability of work in the better-paying organised sector and the lure of higher salaries in advanced nations motivate an increasing number of talented young people to go abroad and settle down there
Arun Kumar - October 31, 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