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Making Sense of India’s Measures of Unemployment

The co-existence of seasonal and regular employment has posed a challenge over the decades for accurately measuring unemployment in India. An explainer and a discussion in the light of the puzzling…

▶09-Sep-2021

Rahul Menon

Essay

The Continuing Relevance of MGNREGA

For more than five years the Government has been lukewarm towards the MGNREGA. Yet, in the midst of the ongoing slowdown this very programme is a potentially effective instrument that it can and…

▶17-Mar-2020

Sudha Narayanan

Rural Workforce

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Making Sense of India’s Measures of Unemployment

The Continuing Relevance of MGNREGA