Popular Writing/Op- Eds

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

DUET: Expand to include social protection for informal workers

Commenting on Jean Drèze’s DUET proposal, Rakshita Swamy and Amit Basole highlight its simple design as its strength and propose a more comprehensive approach that also includes social protection for informal workers.

The article was originally published on the Ideas for India portal.

‘Dictatorship’, no ‘accountability’, no jobs: People in Jammu say Modi govt has failed them

Rajendran Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey | January 4, 2020

Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless

The article was first published on India Spend on 20/01/2020

“More younger workers, and women, lost jobs and struggled to recover them. Even after employment rates recovered, quality of employment deteriorated, with individuals moving into less secure self-employment in agriculture, construction and small-scale trade.”

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