-The Telegraph New Delhi: The proportion of jobless people rose significantly in India across education levels between 2011 and 2016, an economics professor's analysis of two sample surveys suggests. The findings by Santosh Mehrotra, chairperson of the Centre for Labour Studies at JNU, appear to question the Centre's claims about job creation although the period under focus covers only the first two years of Narendra Modi's rule, along with the last three...

-ThePrint.in Three richest states in India are three times as rich as three Poorest, which is why we can’t ignore spatial inequality. In a recent review of James Crabtree’s new book, The Billionaire Raj, also reviewed by me, columnist and part-time member of PM Modi’s Economic Advisory Council, Surjit Bhalla, pays my co-author, political economist and presently data guru for the Indian National Congress, Praveen Chakravarty, the following compliment: “In a much...

-Hindustan Times Most of the city’s Poor are migrants — they constitute about 33% of the population of Delhi — who come to the city attracted by the promise of a secure livelihood and better life. But their hopes and dreams are, more often than not, belied. A peek into how they get by New Delhi: Last month, Delhi, the second wealthiest city in the country — with a total wealth of...

-The Hindu To get good nutrition to all Indians, we need delivery models that are collaborative across domains The urgency to address Poor nutrition in India, especially among children, adolescent girls and women is compelling, and re-confirmed in virtually every survey — from NFHS-4 in 2015-16 (the latest available information), to the Global Nutrition Report 2016 and the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2017, which ranks India at 100 out of 119 countries,...

-Newsclick.in Food grain availability for Indians has increased by just 3.3% since 1961. On this 72nd Independence Day of our India, while there will be the usual speeches and festivities, spare a thought to this shocking bit of news: average availability of food grains for every Indian has increased by 3.3% since 1961. Food grains includes wheat, rice, other cereals and pulses. Among these, per person availability of pulses has actually declined...