-ThePrint.in Report by government-backed panel has pegged average growth under UPA at 8%, higher than that during 4 years under NDA. New Delhi: The Modi government has said that a GDP report that showed higher growth during the UPA years than under four years of NDA rule is only a draft and “should not be quoted anywhere”. The back-series GDP growth report was published on the website of the Ministry of Statistics and...
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ILO: Strong wage policies are key to promote inclusive growth in India
-ILO News Despite real wage growth, inequality, informality and gender wage gap persist. New Delhi: While India’s economy in the past two decades has seen an annual average GDP RATe of 7 % — low pay and inequality persist according to the India Wage Report: Wage policies for decent work and inclusive growth , published by the International Labour Organization. The NSSO estimates also indicate that the real average daily wage has doubled...
More »Changes in the Structure of Employment in India -Vikas Rawal
-Macroscan.org An analysis of overall trends in the structure of employment, differentiated between men and women, between rural and urban workers, and across different sectors. With an emphasis on using age-cohort analysis, the dynamics of change in the employment structure are elucidated. The paper looks at changes in the overall size of the labour force and in work participation RATes between 1993–94 and 2011–12 and talks about changes in employment structure...
More »Tip of job challenge -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-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...
More »New data: UPA did just fine till 2011
-The Economic Times The first cut of the back series of GDP numbers based on the new methodology and new base year of 2011-12 have finally been released. The Central Statistics Office will confirm this, sooner or later. What the new series does show is that India is capable of attaining double-digit growth (10.2% in 2007-08 and 10.8% in 2010-11), and of recovering fast from a sharp slowdown inflicted by global...
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