-The Hindu There is an urgent need for widespread surveys of poor rural women and how they spend their time The Centre for Monitoring Indian economy (CMIE) reported that the labour participation rate of rural women was 9.92% in March 2022 compared to 67.24% for men. This is a cause for concern. According to CMIE, millions who left the labour market stopped looking for employment “possibly [because they were] too disappointed with...
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As Modi Celebrates Eight Years as PM, Three Economic Faultlines That Can't Be Ignored -Arun Kumar
-TheWire.in In the last three years, the Indian economy has been in crisis even if its organized sector has been doing well. Three years of Narendra Modi’s second stint as Prime Minister was celebrated by the Bharatiya Janata Party earlier this month. The self-congratulatory campaign, however, was spoiled quickly by a succession of events, all of which point to what has gone wrong during his tenure. First came the news that the economy...
More »MGNREGS hits record with 3.1 crore families seeking work in May. It’s a cry for help from Bharat -Sayantan Bera and Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in From a record-breaking number of households demanding work under the MGNREGS to the stark decline in consumption and FMCG sales — all signs point to a rural livelihood crisis. New Delhi: Consider a job offer where day wages are less than both statutory minimum wages and market wages for unskilled workers. The work may last for about 10 days at a time, and payments may take more than two weeks, at...
More »CAI cuts cotton crop estimate for 2021-22 on lower yield, crop damages
-The Hindu Business Line Seeks extension in window for duty-free import shipments till December 31, 2022 Ahmedabad, June 18: Lower yield, unseasonal rains during the initial months of harvest coupled with the reduced acreage has led the cotton trade body, Cotton Association of India (CAI) to reduce its crop estimate to 315.32 lakh bales (each of 170 kg) for the season 2021-22. The latest crop estimate is about 12 per cent lower...
More »WTO’s MC12 ends, India’s demand on public stockholdings for food grains pushed to 2023 -Himanshu N
-Down to Earth India had pressed for a concrete solution to the issue; but some other countries hardened their positions, resulting in a lack of consensus, according to a delegate The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World trade Organization (WTO) that began in Geneva June 12, ended June 16, with India’s demand to seek a permanent solution on public stockholdings (PSH) of food grains being pushed to MC13 in 2023. A member...
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