The challenge of employment in the Indian economy, especially after it growth acceleration since the mid-1980s, relates … to its quality rather than its quantity. While employment growth has kept pace with the labour force over the long run …, what has grown is informal employment. The coexistence of rapid capital accumulation, robust output growth and lack of …

creates jobs, draws the majority into the economic and social mainstream, and continuously reduces mass poverty. Employment …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …