Tag: Unemployment

Policy UpdateKirti RanjanBackground  With a population of 1.4 billion, India is the world’s most populous country, home to 17% of the global population. Yet, with...

Dr Krishna RajThe Economic Survey 2023-24, presented on Monday before the Union Budget 2024-25 presented on Tuesday, has a distinct outlook in terms of...

Press ReleaseFiza MahajanWith the recent cuts in several social security schemes for workers and with the allocation to the Ministry of Labour and Employment...

IMPRI TeamAddressing the issue of unemployment and inequality #IMPRI  Center for Human Dignity and Development (CHDD), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi,...

K.R. Shyam SundarEven before COVID-19, the unemployment rate touched a peak in 2017-18 at 6.1%. The urban unemployment rate was 7.8% and the rural...

The State of Development Discourses – #CohesiveDevelopment with Prof Ranjit Singh Ghuman on Global Unemployment and Inequality during 1991-2019: Reflections from Secondary Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maUNmMxcQpo#IMPRI...

Rashmi VenkatesanThe labor market is characterized by low wages, wage disparities, and informalisation. Without correcting these structural bottlenecks, India cannot address the problem of...

Swati SolankiCenter for Work and Welfare (CWW), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, and Counterview organized a Panel Discussion on Employment, Livelihoods,...

Santosh MehrotraIn 1955, the share of the population below the poverty line (NSS 1955) in Uttar Pradesh was 64%, not too different from that...

Santosh MehrotraIndia has one of the world’s lowest women’s work participation rates (almost comparable to that found in Arab countries). The Periodic Labor Force...