The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of `jobless growth'. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in agriculture sector that include low productivity, price instability and...

While India's remarkable performance in IT software and service exports may be inspirational for other Indian industries and more so for other countries in the south, the moot question is how has India fared in terms of harnessing this technology for enhancing manufacturing productivity. This...