Video: Employment, Livelihoods, and Union Budget 2023-24
Employment, Livelihoods, and Union Budget 2023-24 | Panel Discussion | #EmploymentDebate #IMPRI Center for Work and Welfare (CWW), IMPRI…
Unemployment
Employment fallout from Covid mismanagement
Santosh Mehrotra The Covid-19 pandemic has only worsened what was already a joblessness crisis in early 2020….
Realities of Unemployment in India
Even before COVID-19, the unemployment rate touched a peak in 2017-18 at 6.1%. The urban unemployment rate was 7.8% and the rural unemployment rate was 5.3%. While the unemployment rate declined to 5.8% in 2018-19 and 4.8% in 2019-20, urban unemployment declined marginally to 7.7% and 6.9%, respectively. It was stubbornly around 7-8% during 2021 and later. If we consider the current weekly status quarterly unemployment statistics for urban areas, it was 9.4% in January-March 2021 and rose to 12.6% in April-June 2021.
Video: Global Unemployment and Inequality during 1991-2019: Reflections from Secondary Data
The State of Development Discourses – #CohesiveDevelopment with Prof Ranjit Singh Ghuman on Global Unemployment and Inequality…
Reduction of unemployment required to tackle inequality
Rashmi Venkatesan The labor market is characterized by low wages, wage disparities, and informalisation. Without correcting these…
Did the Union Budget 2022-23 add to Jobs?
Santosh Mehrotra In the absence of any vision document (for example, a five-year plan) put out by…