Unemployment

The article by Medha Patkar and Amit Bhaduri offers a correct critique of the current corporate-led rapacious industrialisation which destroys nature and livelihoods. But it does not focus enough on strategies of mobilising people to take charge of the form and content of industrialisation.

Publication Date:

21/03/2009

Author(s): Rabin Chakraborty, Meher Engineer, Soumya Guhathakurta & et al

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

44

Issue:

12

pp:

78

Tags:

Development, Economy, People, Conflicts, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Unemployment, Industry, Private Sector, Public Participation, India

Environment

Responsible tourism is need of the hour: experts

Mumbai: In an effort to focus on

Publication Date:

19/03/2009

Source: Indian Express (Mumbai)

Tags:

Environment, Unemployment, Maharashtra, Mumbai

Our smaller future

A year ago, in this very column, I discussed the myopia of budget 2008, which did not touch upon events then beginning to unfold. Since then we have seen the world collapse and, perhaps, even

Publication Date:

14/03/2009

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Environment Economics, Dryland Farming, Food Policy, Food Prices, Climate Change, Trade, Natural Disasters, Economy, Energy Efficiency, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Unemployment, India, Global, Fuel Pricing, Agriculture

Economy

Down and out

The message from reports on the ground is clear. Unemployment in India

Publication Date:

13/03/2009

Author(s): C. P. Chandrasekhar

Source: Frontline (Chennai)

Tags:

Economy, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Unemployment, India

Economy

Wake-up call

The ILO

Publication Date:

13/03/2009

Author(s): T. K. Rajalakshmi

Source: Frontline (Chennai)

Tags:

Economic Development, Unemployment, South Africa, China, South Korea, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US), Brazil, Globalisation

Economy

Want a job, go rural

At a meeting of SKS microfinance, one of the fastest-growing microfinance organisations in the world, in rural Hyderabad in February 2009, Mallamma, 42, is busy seeking a loan of Rs 50,000 for her fish business. This would be her second loan after she took a loan of Rs 10,000 last year. She is in an expansion mode and is planning to employ more persons in her fish business.

Publication Date:

08/03/2009

Author(s): Saumya Bhattacharya

Source: Business Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Economy, Rural Development, Finance, Unemployment, NGO, India

Poverty

CPI (M) to highlight job scheme for urban poor

SAUBHADRC CHATTERJI New Delhi, 6 March

With job losses in the wake W of economic downturn emerging as the biggest socio economic crisis ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the CPI(M) in its manifesto will highlight the need for employment guarantee scheme for the urban poor; among other things

Publication Date:

07/03/2009

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Unemployment, Political Parties

Economy

Growth sans employment: A quarter century of jobless growth in Indias organised manufacturing

There has been considerable debate in India about the impact of growth on employment especially in the organised manufacturing sector for different periods since the early 1980s. However, changes in the coverage of the Annual Survey of Industries demand a fresh look at the issue over a longer period. This paper attempts such an analysis for 1981-82 to 2004-05.

Publication Date:

07/03/2009

Author(s): K P Kannan, G Raveendran

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

44

Issue:

10

pp:

80

Tags:

Economy, Workers, Economic Development, Unemployment, Industry, India, Statistics