India and Pakistan are the leading textile trading nations in the world. Among the major sectors, the textile and … clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in … higher tariffs by way of being in India's sensitive list are much higher than that for Pakistan. Bilateral trade is more …

Today, as India treads the path of becoming a knowledge economy, we face a paradox of intensifying skill shortages …/education mismatch and analyse the economic returns/cost to over/under education in one of India's largest labour intensive industries … regular salaried/ wage employee or as casual wage labour) in India's T&C industry, we find that the overall educational …

One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act … referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing … employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of 'contract' workers in the Indian …