Checking migration: Odisha extends MGNREGA-supplementary job guarantee to 10 tribal blocks

Job-seekers to get additional Rs 115 a day over MGNREGA wage; implementation isn't proper, says expert

Denied & discouraged: Why youths not looking for jobs can be a crisis for India

A large part of the dejected population have some degree of education

Simply Put: Lightning strikes

Simply Put: What before NRC

Five takeaways from Economic Survey 2016

One of the key findings from this analysis is increasing inequality in income in India

Bihar Elections 2020: A mandate against status quo?

The verdict indicated a tipping point in people’s tolerance for rhetoric; it also exhibited a rare consolidation of the youth 

Anger of the jobless youth

Their frustrations in an unjust world can take various expressions—a fidayeen in Iraq, a stone pelter in Kashmir, a mercenary in Saudi …

One crore people became unemployed in India in 2018

84 per cent of these job losses happened in rural areas

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Union Budget 2024-25: High on claims, less on substance

The budget speech was reduced to unsubstantiated claims and dangling the carrot of prosperity in future yet again

Nigeria’s COVID-19 economic plan has delivered disappointing results: Here’s why

Nigerian economy grew at 2.2% in 2019. It contracted by 1.8% in 2020. It rebounded in 2021 with a growth rate of 2.5%, but the rebound was less …

A third of Nigerians are unemployed: Here’s why

The economy of the sub-Saharan country has not been in good shape for the past 5 years and first went into a recession in 2016

Look back at the decade: Unemployment

Outtake from the second decade of the new millemium: India desperately needs to avail jobs for its ever increasing youth population

Boat makers in Odisha’s coastal villages struggle to stay afloat

New bridges, fibre boats, lack of good wood and even fish stocks bring about the industry’s end

COVID-19: New assessment pegs 25% GDP slide for April-June

Expects industrial output to halve; inflation may shoot up

DTE ground report: Polavaram — Displaced and nowhere to go

Outrage of the 99%

Bihar elections 2020: Issues of the common man the real winner

Unemployment, migration, health, education headlined India’s first election amid COVID-19 pandemic

Kill ‘dwarves’, recommends ‘creatively destructive’ Economic Survey

India’s small firms are holding back growth and job creation; government plans for something else to tide over job crisis

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We create jobs-for the US

Modi government still has no clear strategy for creating employment for the hordes of the jobless young in India

MGNREGA: How mandating Aadhaar-based payment is pushing rural India into poverty, forcing migration

Over 89 million workers will be unable to access work and thereby receive wages under MGNREGA

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

‘India’s unemployment is highest in four decades’

Down To Earth speaks to Binoy Viswam, MP, about the country's unemployment crisis

Globally the number of hours worked dropped in 1st quarter of 2022: ILO

A deficit of 112 million full-time jobs recorded over last quarter of 2021