The economies of the less developed countries are about to face perhaps the greatest challenge in their histories: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment. In terms of absolute magnitude, this challenge has...

The economies of the less developed countries are about to face perhaps the greatest challenge in their histories: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment. In terms of absolute magnitude, this challenge has...

This article focuses on the growth-employment relationship and the determinants of labour force participation rate. In the time-series framework, employment is seen to have a greater impact on GDP rather than vice versa. This is quite consistent with the literature that employment contracts can...

The study aims at understanding critical issues in scientific, and technical (S&T) manpower development, and at identifying strategies to reform the system, both at the systemic, and institutional levels. While India has one of the world's largest stock of scientists, engineers, and technicians,...

S&T manpower act as the most important ingredient for scientific and technological activities. It is also an indicator of technological competitiveness of a country, which is most important in the 21st century. The manpower outturn and stock is also an important input while designing science...

In this paper, we investigate the incidence of unemployment among the seven northeastern states of India and compared it with all India figures. This is based on household level data on employment and unemployment collected by the NSSO for the year 1993-94. The level of unemployment has been...

The Mahbub-ul-Haq Human Development Center, Islamabad, presented the Human Development Report for 2003. The report opined that the skills demanded by globalization were lacking in the workforce in South Asia, thus exacerbating unemployment. Ironically, educated unemployment has increased...