India@75 survey: Indians favour policy push for rural development, govt jobs
2 years, 5 months ago

India@75 survey: Indians favour policy push for rural development, govt jobs

Live Mint  

How should India be governed? Around 53% of urban Indians would prefer a tax cut over cash transfers for the poor; 58% would like the government to be the job-giver compared to 42% wanting it to be an enabler of private sector jobs. View Full Image India's idea of welfare The survey covered 10,271 respondents across 204 cities and towns. Reservation debate Two-thirds of respondents would prefer caste reservation in public sector jobs to be phased out as opposed to extending it to the private sector. This is one of six parts in a data journalism series based on the YouGov-Mint-CPR survey held in the run-up to India completing 75 years of independence.

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The Indian economy is yet to fully escape the state’s shackles
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Indian economy is yet to fully escape the state’s shackles

Live Mint  

Indian citizens are hesitatingly capitalist. For capitalism to work for a large majority of people, you need institutions to encode and enforce the rules, and prosperity to fund the welfare payments required to uplift specific disadvantaged segments of the population. This column, the sixth in the series on the ‘quantity to quality’ reforms required for India to achieve upper-income status, …

India’s population growth: Is it boon or bane?
2 years, 6 months ago

India’s population growth: Is it boon or bane?

Firstpost  

The greatest growth in population in India, higher than the national average, is taking place amongst the poorest, in the least developed states, amongst the uneducated and malnourished Of the current world population of 8 billion in 2022, India and China account for roughly 2.8 billion, on a more or less equal basis. However, the greatest growth in population in …

India’s Cities are Victims of Outdated Political Economy Constructs
3 years, 5 months ago

India’s Cities are Victims of Outdated Political Economy Constructs

News 18  

Livability in a city, over the past 18 months, is strongly influenced by the extent of the ravages unleashed by the COVID-19 virus. Constitutional Oddities City governments also lack original powers under the Constitution of India, which requires individual states to legislate city mandates, even though the Twelfth Schedule specifies 18 functional areas as city government mandates. No Takers for …

Indians prefer job guarantee over everything else. This is the top reason
3 years, 6 months ago

Indians prefer job guarantee over everything else. This is the top reason

Live Mint  

A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by the London School of Economics. An overwhelming 82% of respondents surveyed for the report ‘City of dreams no more, a year on: worklessness and active labour market policies in urban …

Unemployment biggest worry of urban Indians: Survey
5 years ago

Unemployment biggest worry of urban Indians: Survey

India TV News  

Concerns about joblessness is on the rise in India as a new survey has revealed that unemployment is what worries 46 per cent of urban Indians the most. The results revealed that in November at least three per cent more urban Indians were worried about unemployment than those in October, according to the latest report of the "What Worries the …

Farm sector doles: Band-aid solutions hide jobless growth; India's agrarian economy needs liberalisation, not govt handouts
5 years, 10 months ago

Farm sector doles: Band-aid solutions hide jobless growth; India's agrarian economy needs liberalisation, not govt handouts

Firstpost  

Instead of addressing the dwindling jobs and agrarian crisis, the government has responded by announcing a Targeted Basic Income scheme for farmers. In spite of its huge budgetary allocation Rs 75,000 crore per year, which exceeds National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme budget, it offers very little purchasing capacity to individuals, let alone potential to create sizable jobs. It is in …

10% quota for upper castes: Make govt jobs less cushy, says MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee
6 years ago

10% quota for upper castes: Make govt jobs less cushy, says MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee

Firstpost  

Banerjee said on Wednesday that people prefer government jobs as they are well paid and have no very strong obligation to work. Mumbai: As the poll-bound BJP government is striving to get lawmakers’ nod to get a 10 percent quota for the economically backward upper-castes practically making everyone eligible for reservations, MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee has opined that we badly …

For equitable growth, India must unthink the urban
6 years ago

For equitable growth, India must unthink the urban

Hindustan Times  

The allure of agglomeration comes from the belief that metropolises are engines of growth, supposedly due to an increase in productivity from clustering of firms and labour, and tacit information spillovers between them, which fosters innovation. Today, infrastructure investments include a planned airport and a private logistics park,driven by proximity to the dedicated freight corridor and a core demand based …

Let’s shift towards a new politics of welfare
6 years, 1 month ago

Let’s shift towards a new politics of welfare

Hindustan Times  

From manifesto promises to build cow shelters and starting commercial production of cow urine; to statue inaugurations and chief ministers busy making headlines for changing city names rather than changing policy, the political rhetoric this election season is a sad reminder of one of the greatest empirical puzzles of India’s democracy. For all its initial rhetoric on jobs and aspirations, …

India’s job challenge: Options aplenty but well-paying ones elude workforce
6 years, 4 months ago

India’s job challenge: Options aplenty but well-paying ones elude workforce

Hindustan Times  

Everybody agrees that employment generation is India’s biggest political-economy challenge. While the share of agriculture in India’s GDP has been coming down, its share of employment has been relatively constant. The relative share being greater than one will mean that the sector’s income share is greater than its employment share in the economy. A 2014 Reserve Bank of India working …

Youth in India prefer a government job and the security attached to it, shows survey
6 years, 4 months ago

Youth in India prefer a government job and the security attached to it, shows survey

Firstpost  

A decreasing income differential between public and private sector jobs, particularly at the entry-level, is driving the youth towards government jobs. There’s a growing preference for government jobs in Indian cities, a trend that clearly indicates young Indians are prioritising job security over rapid career growth, promised by most private sector employers. The work environment and job profiles in these …

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