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PM Modi inspired by Narasimha Rao? Govt heralds welfare schemes with Jan Dhan, insurance for poorIn the phase of economic reforms, Rao unleashed an entrepreneurial spirit which may have given shape to many schemes providing safety net u...
TMC calls the Budget 2016 'hopeless'Speaking to the media at the state secretariat, Bengal FM said, “This is a directionless budget. It is not for common people. West Bengal h...
High growth not enough for job creationBetween 2004-05 and 2009-10, a period that saw three successive years of 9%-plus growth, data from the NSSO showed virtually no growth in e...
New government must follow a long and a short term plan for labourAt a recent job fair in Gwalior an unemployed kid told us, “I want Rs 4,000 in Gwalior, Rs 7,000 in Noida, Rs 8,000 in Gurgaon, Rs 9,000 in...
Job market’s new challenge: Tackle informalisation of workersA recent study by brokerage Credit Suisse showed that almost 90% of the workforce was unorganised, and produced nearly half of India’s GDP.
Markets crash: Time to reverse policies that don’t workThe liquidity squeeze has created havoc in the economy and industry. Many banks are not disbursing even sanctioned loans.
- Reforms and massive infrastructure spends are needed to cope with shorter business cycles
When business leaders begin to shy away from innovation that, in turn, discourages investment and growth.
- Rural consumption to triple to $600 bn in 3 years: Nischal Maheshwari, Head-Research, Edelweiss
Edelweiss has gone out towards the whole of India. They have sampled some 2000 rural households.
- Survey calls for inclusive development and a copper-bottomed plan
Economic Survey suggested freeing food, fertiliser subsidies. Relying heavily on fiscal/administrative measures to counter food inflation, ...
- Budget doesn’t connect well with the aam aadmi
The hypocrisy of industry is most visible during Budget time as is the veil of secrecy that the Finance Ministry covers itself with.
- NREGA: An exchange with Jean Dreze
Debating the pros and cons of cash transfers as also the desirability of building durable infrastructure to remove poverty with Dreze, key ...
- UPA plans to involve citizens in tracking NREGA’s progress
The move is part of the follow-up action planned by the rural development ministry to ensure better implementation of the scheme.
Creating a subaltern stimulusBy making choices available to the poor, the NREGA-plus avoids the assumption that all poor are ready to engage in physical work only.
- NREGA scheme gets thumbs up from ILO
The UPA's flagship programme NREGA has got the thumbs up from the ILO, which has said that had it not been for the scheme, the labour class...
- No free lunches even under NREGA
Work executed under the NREGA and rural development generally call for a much greater degree of professionalisation, for which we must be w...
- NREGA: Cynics versus doers
Social accountability movement has the potential to make the beneficiaries of all anti-poverty programmes more aware and assertive of their...
- NREGA may be adversely affecting agriculture
NREGA programme affecting agriculture in some areas, due to lack of labour.