Employment Op-Eds (Until Jan 2025)
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MGNREGS | Govt’s Claims of Quickness and Smoothness With Aadhaar-Based Payments Are False
Anuradha De, Rajendran Narayanan, Parul Saboo and Laavanya Tamang | January 30, 2025
The Right to Work Deleted
Rajendran Narayanan,Chakradhar Buddha | November 28, 2024
A Field Study of Rajasthan’s Urban Employment Guarantee Act
Amit Basole, Shiuli Vanaja , Niruj Deka | July 29, 2024
Budget must open a pathway to an employment policy
Amit Basole | July 15, 2024
Entering during an economic crisis: Labour market trajectories of young Indian workers
Mrinalini Jha, Rosa Abraham | May 29, 2024
Number Theory: Tracking household accounts in last 5 years
Amit Basole, Anand Shrivastava | May 14 2024
A women’s urban employment guarantee act
Rajendran Narayanan, Rosa Abraham | March 4, 2024
Wages of inequality: The income-growth gap
Amit Basole, Zico Dasgupta | Februrary 7, 2024
India’s jobs crisis, the macroeconomic reasons
Zico Dasgupta, Amit Basole | December 25, 2023
What Do We Miss on Women’s Employment in Survey Data?
Rosa Abraham, Nishat Anjum, Rahul Lahoti and Hema Swaminathan | February 21, 2023
What Budget must take from rich, give to poor
Amit Basole | January 23, 2023
In Covid-19, the rural job plan was a big safety net
Amit Basole and Rajendran Narayanan | October 22, 2022
Number theory: Shrinking public sector employment and its costs
Pabitra Chowdhury and Rosa Abraham | September 1, 2022
Let us not underestimate deprivation in the country
Amit Basole | May 3, 2022
बजट में कोरोना से निपटने की तैयारियों के साथ इससे हुए नुकसान से लोगों को उबारने का करें उपाय
Mrinalini Jha | January 13, 2022
Covid-19 and the Informalisation of India’s Salaried Workers
Rosa Abraham and Amit Basole | January 3, 2022
Covid-19 and India’s youth workforce
Rosa Abraham | December 16, 2021
How household incomes were affected by Covid
Mrinalini Jha | December 15, 2021
No country for young workers: How demonetisation has hurt a generation of Indians
Rosa Abraham and Anand Shrivastava | November 10, 2021
Covid-19: Impact on income inequality in India
Mrinalini Jha and Rahul Lahoti | September 1, 2021
Mere growth in a sector doesn’t translate to benefits for workers
Mrinalini Jha and Rosa Abraham | July 27, 2021
Reading between pandemic’s economic shockwaves: Among worst hit are our teachers and small business owners
Mrinalini Jha and Rosa Abraham | July 15, 2021
Amit Basole on the pandemic’s devastating impact and the need for a fiscal response now
Amit Basole | June 5, 2021
Surviving Covid second wave: Cash support of Rs 15,000 per family a possible solution?
Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham | May 19, 2021
Second COVID Wave To Hit Jobs, Economy Harder
Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham | May 19, 2021
गरीबों को मदद से ही सुधरेगी अर्थव्यवस्था: तहस-नहस अर्थव्यवस्था और बर्बादी के कगार पर खड़े लोग एक ही सिक्के के दो पहलू हैं
Mrinalini Jha and Amit Basole | May 17, 2021
It is getting from bad to worse for women workers
Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham | May 17, 2021
1 year of Covid and the way forward
Rosa Abraham | May 5, 2021
Post-lockdown misery of India’s migrant workers
Rajendran Narayanan | March 24, 2021
Have the labour markets recovered post-lockdown?
Rosa Abraham and Amit Basole | January 26, 2021
Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless
Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole and Surbhi Kesar | January 20, 2021
Reviving Employment and Livelihoods in India: Covid-19 and After
Confederation of Indian Industries and Azim Premji University Report
Author: Amit Basole
Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods in India
Canadian Journal of Development Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2021.1890003
Authors: Surbhi Kesar, Rosa Abraham, Rahul Lahoti, Paaritosh Nath and Amit Basole
Down and Out? The Gendered Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on India’s Labour Market
CSE Working Paper #40, February, 2021
Authors: Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole and Surbhi Kesar
Also see: A podcast with Rosa Abraham and coverage of this research in Bloomberg Quint and Times of India.
Labour, Livelihoods, and Employment in the 2021 – 22 Union Budget
Article in Economic and Political Weekly, Feb 27, 2021
Author: Amit Basole
The Budget does not help those facing hunger, unemployment and loss of educational opportunities
Article in Frontline, Feb 26, 2021
Authors: Rahul Lahoti and Surbhi Kesar
A Budget that doubly punishes victims of the pandemic
Article in Frontline, Feb 26, 2021
Author: Zico Dasgupta
The poorest have been worst hit by pandemic
Article in Hindustan Times, Jan 29, 2021
Authors: Paaritosh Nath, S. Nelson Mandela and Aishwarya Gawali
Have the labour markets recovered post-lockdown?
Article in Hindustan Times, Jan 26, 2021
Authors: Rosa Abraham and Amit Basole
सबसे बड़ा सवाल: महिलाओं और युवाओं पर पड़ी लॉकडाउन की ज्यादा मार? Sandeep Chaudhary के साथ
Research reported in Sabse Bada Sawal on News24, Jan 23, 2021
The Impossible Trinity Facing Budget 2021 – 22
Article in Hindustan Times, Jan 23, 2021
Author: Zico Dasgupta
Budget 2021: As Inequalities Widen, What Should Be India’s Policy Approach?
BloombergQuint, Jan 19, 2021 interview
Ira Dugal from Bloomberg Quint speaks with Arjun Jayadev, Amit Basole, and Rajendran Narayanan.
Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless
Article in India Spend, Jan 20, 2021
Authors: Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole, and Surbhi Kesar.
See our working paper for a detailed analysis
What 2020 did to India’s inequality?
Article in Mint, Jan 19, 2021
Authors: Rahul Lahoti , Mrinalini Jha , and Amit Basole.
Experts call for a spending boost.
Article in Mint, Dec 30, 2021
Article by Shreya Nandi from Mint, based on panel discussions with Rosa Abraham (Senior Fellow, Azim Premji Unierversity), Jyotsna Jha (Director, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bengaluru), Ashutosh Gupta (India country manager, LinkedIn), and Manish Sabharwal (Chairman, Teamlease Services).
The Time Is Right for an Urban Employment Guarantee Programme
Amit Basole, Rajendran Narayanan, Anand Shrivastava and Rakshita Swamy | November 30, 2020
Hunger, nutrition are worse than before lockdown. PDS must be universalised
Dipa Sinha and Rajendran Narayanan | November 26, 2020
NREGA didis of Kurhani
Rajendran Narayanan | November 4, 2020
Labour’s data lost
Rajendran Narayanan and Bishwa Pandey | October 15, 2020
When the state is silent, it becomes the citizen’s duty to speak up and express dissent
Aruna Roy and Rajendran Narayanan | September 5, 2020
‘Dekh Li Democracy?’: What I Learned During a Few Hours in Ramban
Rajendran Narayanan | August 13, 2020
Hunger Grows as India’s Lockdown Kills Jobs
Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, Surbhi Kesar and Paaritosh Nath | May 29, 2020
Locked down in distress
Sakina Dhorajiwala and Rajendran Narayanan | May 9, 2020
Patents vs. the Pandemic
Joseph E Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev and Achal Prabhala | April 23, 2020
The COVID-19 Lockdown Will Ravage Prospects for India’s Female Workforce
Hema Swaminathan and Rahul Lahoti | April 15, 2020
5 Ways For India To Fund Massive Economic Stimulus Package
Arjun Jayadev | April 14, 2020
In Yes Bank crisis, you can’t miss the ugly realities of India’s private sector lenders
Arjun Jayadev and Avinash Tripathi | March 12, 2020
‘Dictatorship’, no ‘accountability’, no jobs: People in Jammu say Modi govt has failed them
Rajendran Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey | January 4, 2020
Privatising a public good
Surbhi Kesar, Devika Dutt and Zico Dasgupta | December 20, 2019
Common Service Centres The Emperor’s New Clothes
Inayat Sabhikhi, Rahul Lahoti and Rajendran Narayanan | November 1, 2019
A Dogra from Jammu deplores the “slow death of our basic and fundamental humanity”
Surbhi Kesar | September 30, 2019
Share Of Regular Salaried Work Rises, But Women More Likely To Be Self-Employed
Janaki Shibu and Rosa Abraham | July 2, 2019
Modi’s Greatest Trick: Turning Our Deepest Insecurities Into A System of Governance
Rajendran Narayanan and Sayandeb Chowdhury | May 22, 2019
The need for urban employment scheme (in Hindi)
Amit Basole and Rajendran Narayanan | April 4, 2019
The politics of information
Rajendran Narayanan , Rakshita Swamy and Nikhil Dey | April 4, 2019
The Employment Question in India Politics, Economics, and the Way Forward
Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev | April 3, 2019
Focus on Small Towns and It Will Be Boomtown India
Methew Idiculla, Amit Basole and Rajendran Narayanan | March 31, 2019
Guaranteeing urban jobs
Rajendran Narayanan, Amit Basole and Mathew Idiculla | March 30, 2019
The shape of an urban employment guarantee
Mathew Idiculla, Rajendran Narayanan and Amit Basole | March 29, 2019
Where has all the jobs data gone?
Rosa Abraham, Janaki Shibu, Rajendran Narayanan | January 30, 2019
Unprecedented drop in job creation cause for worry
Amit Basole | January 1, 2019
An imaginary friend
Sakina Dhorajiwala and Rajendran Narayanan | November 1, 2018
Azim Premji University economists respond to criticism about jobs report
Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev | October 10, 2018
Employment and wage challenges (in Hindi)
Amit Basole and Anand Shrivastava | October 3, 2018
More Proof that India’s Creating Fewer Jobs: This is Why
Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev | September 28, 2018
Did the Indian economy create nearly 13 million jobs in 2017?
Amit Basole and Anand Shrivastava | September 5, 2018
Social identity and perceived income adequacy
Ashwini Deshpande and Deepti Goel | June 13, 2018
Development Will Not Cure Gender Inequality, Policy Will: Examining the Economic Survey 2017 – 18
Rahul Lahoti | May 26, 2018
The Great Aadhaar Game: Don’t be Arbitrary, be Cleverly Random
Rajendran Narayanan | April 5, 2018
In terms of job creation, Union Budget has little to offer
Amit Basole | February 2, 2018
Identifying an effective teacher in public schools in Delhi
Bidisha Barooah and Deepti Goel | December 26, 2017
Long-run trends in rural wages
Amit Basole | October 24, 2017
Intellectual property for the twenty-first-century economy
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dean Baker and Arjun Jayadev | October 23, 2017
Poverty in India: Measurement and eradication
Amit Basole | October 17, 2017
The ‘Pey’ and ‘Bhutam’ in India’s Technology-Fuelled Development Crusade
Rajendran Narayanan | September 9, 2017
After 70 years Independence, Indian economy remains dominated by the informal sector
Amit Basole | August 14, 2017
Let us not make job creation in India a number game
Amit Basole | July 26, 2017
Indian farmers are dying from abysmally low wages
Amit Basole | July 10, 2017
Communalism Has Been Injected Even in Bread and Butter Issues of Jharkhand
Rajendran Narayanan | June 27, 2017
Why is India’s growth not creating more jobs?
Amit Basole | June 13, 2017
Jobless Growth Plagues India
Amit Basole | June 5, 2017
The decline of rural earning inequality in India
Deepti Goel, Shantanu Khanna and Rene Morissette | April 5, 2017
A guarantee, an illusion
Rajendran Narayanan , Sakina Dhorajiwala | February 14, 2017
Jobless growth still the leitmotif
Amit Basole | February 2, 2017
In Defence of Activism in Universities
Rajendran Narayanan | December 21, 2016
Minimum wage: wage subsidy is the solution to income disparity
Amit Basole | September 5, 2016
Women and the Indian job market: Glass ceiling or sticky floor?
Ashwini Deshpande and Deepti Goel | June 10, 2016
No Guarantee In Mahabubnagar
Chakradhar Buddha and Rajendran Narayanan | February 4, 2016
Geographical Indication: Will it Save Traditional Indian Art?
Amit Basole | October 23, 2015
Income inequality in India: Trends from the World Top Incomes Database
Amit Basole | August 31, 2015
The mystery is solved: why is India’s calorie intake falling even though it is getting richer?
Amit Basole | May 4, 2015
The 2015 – 2016 Budget: Business as Usual?
Amit Basole | March 10, 2015
Obama Versus Obamacare
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dean Baker and Arjun Jayadev | February 10, 2015
What explains declining calorie consumption in India?
Amit Basole and Deepankar Basu | June 16, 2014
Why is Calorie Intake Falling if Incomes are Rising in India?
Amit Basole and Deepankar Basu | May 14, 2014