A final decision on the stimulus and its financing is yet to be taken. The wage subsidy benefit is expected to be made available to firms t...

The call for increased support came as U.S. airlines begin furloughs of more than 32,000 workers amid fading hopes for a new federal bailou...

For poorest beneficiaries, the transfers under PM-KISAN make a significant contribution to their purchasing power.

IMF said India should take necessary measures to ensure privacy and security controls while implementing large identification programmes li...

Here’s a sample of a few ongoing policy experiments that are in the works to tackle the new workspace. This can be great learning for India.

While job crisis remains severe could be potentially explosive, three possible ways of relieving it have not received adequate attention.

"An ambitious target of ensuring all centrally sponsored welfare and subsidy schemes are brought on DBT by March 2017, has been set," a sen...

While Department of Food incurs internal expenditure for providing subsidised foodgrains, biometric authentication ensures targeted disburs...

Jaitley has approved the proposal to extend wages under the flagship rural jobs programme through the DBT platform and a final notification...

The Skill Ministry should constitute a wage board which will quarterly publish the Minimum Wages based on scientific studies.

Khadi Village Industries Commission is the nodal agency at national level to implement the scheme across the country.

Gandhi, who is also UPA Chairperson, also announced her intent to bring the much-talked out Food Security Bill in Parliament soon.

It's easy to see why the right to food makes better political sense than allowing foreign direct investment in retail.

How effective are India's innumerable social security programmes at reaching out to the poorest of the poor? If a recent World Bank report ...

Social accountability movement has the potential to make the beneficiaries of all anti-poverty programmes more aware and assertive of their...

The Asian Development Bank has sanctioned a grant of USD 150 million to finance reforms in the khadi industry.

A major Rs 410-crore programme for providing development support to the coffee-plantation sector during the Eleventh Plan was cleared some ...