-TheWire.in Real average daily wages improved between 1993-94 and 2011-12, but gains of growth have bypassed casual workers, women and rural areas. Over the past two decades, India became one of the two fastest growing economies in the world, alongside China. The gross domestic product (GDP) has risen four folds since 1993. But has this growth been distributed to lower economic inequality? Has the increase in wages matched the pace of growth...
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Jharkhand's Khunti: Multiple narratives, one story of migration, bonded labour and hunger
-PTI Many of Jharkhand's immigrant women labourers are lured by touts into becoming domestic workers in cities and are often reduced to bonded labourers. KHUNTI: Her eyes sunk deep in their sockets, Suggi Mundain stares blankly at the wall of her bare-bones hut, her vacant gaze speaking of a once happy family torn apart by grinding poverty, and telling a societal tale of migration and exploitation. The 60-year-old, her face wrinkled beyond her...
More »Empowering domestic workers -Ujjwal K Chowdhury
-MillenniumPost.in Attention must be drawn to the lakhs of domestic helps in India who do not receive any legal protection. The number of domestic workers in India varies from official estimates of around five million to loosely defined unofficial estimates of 10 million. Between 2000 and 2010, women (young girls included) made up for more than 75 per cent of the new entrants into the domestic workforce. In 2010, more than 68...
More »David Barkin, Professor of Economics at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City, interviewed by Kabir Agarwal (TheWire.in)
-TheWire.in Mexican economist David Barkin on India's neoliberal economics, growing inequalities, agrarian distress and more. David Barkin is Professor of Economics at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City. He received his doctorate in economics from Yale University and was awarded the National Prize in Political Economics in 1979 for his analysis of inflation in Mexico. His research has focused on the development of an alternative to the capitalist economic model. In an...
More »New Save the Children report reveals insecurity of teenage girls from the outside world, but are our homes safe enough?
Released in May this year, a study by Save the Children has found that if you are an adolescent girl living in the country, then you are most likely to be afraid about being harassed outside your homes viz. in public places. Entitled WINGS 2018 - World of India's Girls: A study on the perception of girls’ safety in public spaces, the study shows that nearly one-third of teenage girls surveyed...
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