-Livemint.com What will happen to the PMGKAY beyond December 2022? It cannot continue indefinitely in its present form. At a time when central banks all over the world are into a round robin of interest rates hikes, in a context of impending recession in several major world economies, an unending war, and uncertainty about energy availability and pricing going into the northern hemisphere winter, the only cheering news was India’s further extension...
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Through a rosy lens -Anup Sinha
-The Telegraph The airbrushing of the Indian economy is damaging The latest Monthly Economic Review from the ministry of finance gives the reader a great deal of comfort by indicating that all is well with the Indian economy. If there is any cause for concern at all, it is from external economic and political shocks: events like the Federal Reserve in the United States of America raising interest rates, or Russia invading...
More »How well did the women workers fare during the pandemic years? The yearly PLFS reports provide some mixed answers.
Do you want a job that does not pay you at all? The answer will be surely 'no' for most of us. And yet, in our previous analysis, it was found that the proportion of 'helpers in household enterprises' among the total number of workers grew over various rounds of annual PLFS (Periodic Labour Force Survey), from 13.3 percent to 15.9 percent between PLFS 2018-19 and PLFS 2019-20, and then...
More »Real estate, IT, gig jobs, MNREGA: Making sense of India’s roller-coaster unemployment crisis -Radhika Pandey
-ThePrint.in Employment in India rose from 394.6 million in August to 404.2 million in September, and while the numbers are still below pre-Covid levels, the increase is encouraging. India’s unemployment rate dropped sharply to 6.4 per cent in September from 8.3 per cent in August. This was the lowest unemployment rate in the past four years. The fall in unemployment was seen across both rural and urban regions. Alongside the decline in the...
More »Climate change escalates suicide rates among Marathwada farmers -Himanshu Nitnaware
-Down to Earth Farmer suicides have increased significantly and doubled in some regions where weather extremities incurred heavy losses Farmer suicides in the Nanded district of Maharashtra’s Marathwada more than doubled since incessant rains caused severe crop damage in the region. The suicide cases in Nanded jumped to 26 in August from eight in July, according to official estimates. The total number of farmer suicides reported from the district in 2022 stood at 93...
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