Employment

Analysing Employment and Unemployment trends in India from 2010-11 to 2021-2022

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Abstract:  In December 2022 the unemployment rate reached a record high at 9 percent, which is the highest it has been since the pandemic. India currently enjoys a demographic dividend where almost 65 percent are under the age of 35. However, despite having a young population, the labour force over the years has decreased. Enrolments …

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Prime Minister’s Comprehensive Economic Package: Rehabilitation of Kashmiri Migrants

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With the onset of militancy in Kashmir during 1989-1990, many Kashmiris had to migrate from Kashmir to safer places in Jammu and adjacent areas. According to the data from the Department of Relief and Rehabilitation Government of Jammu and Kashmir, 44,167 registered migrant families live in Jammu. Amongst them, 39868 are Kashmiri Pandit families, 2574 …

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A Solution-Centric Mindset is Fundamental to Public Policy Work

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Albert Einstein, widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all time, had famously remarked “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. Einstein, in all likelihood, made this statement to influence scientific temper and inculcate the value of scientific thinking, but his quote is easily admissible …

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The Importance of Inculcating an Entrepreneurial Mindset Among the Youth

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The Indian economy has witnessed the brink of transition through the process of economic liberalisation undertaken in 1991 which shifted the focus from government owned entities to private players, while attracting foreign investment and decreasing inflation rates through open market competition. Despite such elaborate mechanisms, the effect of rise in GDP could only be observed …

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A Case for Urban Employment Guarantee Programme – Necessity, Precedents and Proposals

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The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on not just public health, but also on economies and livelihoods of people around the world. Socio-economic inequalities worsened globally, pushing about 230 million people into poverty in India alone, as per a report by Azim Premji University [1]. If there is one thing that the last …

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Comparing Employment and the Incidence of Poverty in U.P. and Bangladesh

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Bangladesh and U.P. are both one of the most populated regions globally. Other than population, there are other various parameters where they can be compared. In the given write-up, we have compared the unemployment and incidence of poverty between these two regions. Further, we have also tried to understand its implications.  Bangladesh: From the Bottomless …

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The Myth of Growth

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In 1956, Charles Tiebout, an American economist devised an economic model (dubbed as ‘The Tiebout Model’) geared at advancing the ‘federal argument’ through a fiscal-financial fusion. The ‘Tiebout Model’ counseled that federal units/states within a country contest for migrant influx while offering an analogue to the private sector by rendering alternative baskets of public goods. …

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