Category Archives: Employment and Livelihoods
2010 Agricultural Statistics At A Glance
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Strong Agriculture Output To Support GDP Growth
The country’s economic growth is expected to remain strong despite sluggishness in the manufacturing sector as a rebound in agricultural output is expected to support overall growth. Growth in the key farm sector, which accounts for nearly 17% of the nation’s … Continue reading
The United Nations Trade And Development Report, 2010 On Employment, Globalisation And Development.
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High Growth, Few jobs
Unemployment has grown despite high GDP growth in developing economies, says the latest UN report. Developing countries not only need to create enough employment in quantitative terms, they also need to improve the quality of jobs. A major characteristic of … Continue reading
How Women Seized NREGA
More women than men work under the national programme that guarantees employment to rural people. In the current fiscal till October, women availed of more than 50 per cent of employment created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee … Continue reading
3 New Indices To Ensure Relevance To Realities
In an effort to ensure relevance to emerging realities and to cast important light on challenges that persist, three new indices were introduced in 2010 in the UNDP’s Human Development Report. The three indices introduced in 2010 measurement are the … Continue reading
Pranab Sees A Return To Over 9% GDP Soon
With India showing a fast turnaround from the economic slowdown, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee now wants India to achieve 10 per cent GDP growth in the next two years.
Economic Geography Matters
The recent controversy with regard to computation of the GDP raises some issues. Is GDP always the appropriate indicator to measure the economic activity of a country or a region? Why is it important for us to have a geographical … Continue reading
New Education Policies Needed To Combat Widespread Illiteracy
India needs to drastically change its education system to combat the illiteracy impacting its workforce, which now stands at a mind-boggling figure of 860 million. “Illiteracy is impacting the demand and supply of employable workforce in India,” Hari Bhartia, President, CII, … Continue reading
What’s in NREGA for the middle class
Despite its seminal success in beginning a process of addressing issues of poverty, starvation and empowering the poor, the MGNREGA needed a general election to breathe life into it. However, the disproportionate influence of the middle class on social sector policy … Continue reading