The curious case of randomness

Cheer for the Nobel, but randomised controlled trials can't be the quick-fix for all problems

Employed but poor

Poverty among employed people underscores the need for a new strategy on job creation

Impact of MGNREGS: household income on rise, so is agricultural productivity  

In the last one decade, it has also helped increase groundwater table by virtue of implementing a range of water conservation measures

Jobs define female power in the home

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Bum deal at the summit

A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing: that was the Social Development battlefield at Copenhagen

Scheme for tribalfolk

Guards back with tigers

Court orders salaries for Valmiki Tiger Reserve staff

Home run

J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats

ILO says economic growth leads to longer working hours in Asia

It's the economy Americans are worried about

Drumming it in

Should local communities pay for Western notions of 'global benefit'?

Healing Afghanistan

The karez system could solve the country's water problems

Works unwell

Employment guarantee scheme workers in Rajasthan do not get their dues

A reminder to Vasundhara Raje

Why employment has to be guaranteed through an Act, not a scheme

Burdensome load

Laid-off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal

CAG slams Uttar Pradesh for poor implementation of MGNREGS

14.5 per cent decline in employment under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, says country’s chief auditor

Democracy under surveillance

West Bengal bureaucrats to monitor panchayat institutions, implement their decisions  

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 …

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    

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

Budget 2020-21: Will MGNREGA become an overarching rural development scheme

The upcoming budget will see many schemes being brought under the rural employment prtogramme; a direct cash transfer may be declared to top this up

Demand of record 30 million jobs for MGNREGS reflects rural distress

Men outnumbered women for the 1st time in job demand

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

Simply Put: Marriage and employment

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