Employment enigma: India’s high rate of self-employment gets reflected as a decrease in unemployment rate
The number of self-employed has increased in India, a trend usually seen in poor and developing countries with low per capita income
Banana wise: This fashion designer in Shravasti uses banana crop waste to make women financially independent
Tejashwi Pathak’s Baudhanchal self-help group helps women in the east Uttar Pradesh district to make handicrafts from banana waste and …
‘Green growth’ can help African countries address socio-economic inequalities: Report
Green growth can address inequity through the creation of decent jobs, better provision of basic services, improvement of air quality and …
COVID-19 and jobs: The salaried, younger workers and women suffered more
While overall employment declined in the country in 2020-21, compared to 2019-20, some sections have been affected more adversely than others
Ageism hurts young, old alike: New report shows extent of impact
The younger, male, less educated population, as well as those anxious about death was more likely to perpetrate ageism
Banning manual scavenging in India: A long, complex passage
Union government is set to introduce The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, in …
West Bengal MGNREGS workers protest over stopping funds to scheme, non-payment of arrears
Protestors gather at chief labour commissioner office, ask for immediate action
MGNREGA: Demand for work up 74% in June
40 million rural households turn to job scheme — the highest since 2013-14
Investment in care services can generate 234 million jobs for women by 2035, says ILO
An annual investment of $5.4 trillion will be required to generate these jobs
MGNREGA: Workers across 13 states protest to demand unpaid wages
Around Rs 2,800 crore are pending in wages from the Centre under MGNREGA for this financial year and around Rs 1,984 crore are pending from the …
China’s population has peaked and is now falling — opportunities and risks for Africa
African countries with a large working-age population can theoretically benefit from the end of China’s period of labour-abundance
Maharashtra: No brides for Marathwada farmers
City jobs and owner of farm land — prerequisites for prospective grooms have changed
Closing the gender gap in clean energy transitions
Engaging women across diverse sectors and roles can help ensure expansion of developing countries’ GDP
Structural pitfalls of MGNREGA
It’s time to remove inherent flaws of the guaranteed wage programme MGNREGA that limit its poverty alleviation potential
COVID-19 migrants: Future of work and production
Work needs to be reimagined. This is an opportunity to renew rural economies and make them resilient; but it won’t to be easy
Concrete truth of water structures built under MNREGA
The share of water structures constructed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has gone down from 20 per cent in 2014-…
Central funds freeze: MGNREGA workers in West Bengal trapped in vicious cycle of illness and poverty
Workers struggling to make ends meet, have had to put new and existing health issues aside
Lack of MGNREGS work driving migration in rural West Bengal
Most men, teenage boys left their family behind to find work in other cities after Centre freezed funds to the rural employment scheme …
Mandatory digital attendance for MGNREGS will destroy it, activists warn
Lack of access to technology will discourage workers, drive them to work for cheaper wages outside of scheme
A job in a warzone or unemployment at home
Indian diplomatic missions need to closely monitor the security situation and assess the threat perceptions to its communities
Demand of record 30 million jobs for MGNREGS reflects rural distress
Men outnumbered women for the 1st time in job demand
Simply Put: Marriage and employment
Levelled out: MGNREGA helps bring in more land under cultivation in Ranga Reddy
Having levelled the terrain, farmers for the first time take up agriculture
COVID-19: Asia-Pacific region lost 8% of working hours in 2020, says report
The pandemic pushed 75-80 million people in developing Asia-Pacific region into extreme poverty in 2020
COVID-19 has cost sub-Saharan Africa 13.5 million jobs in working hour losses: ILO
Nearly 5 million workers and their families in sub-Saharan Africa have been pushed into extreme poverty due to COVID-19, ILO says