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

Nonfarm employment plays an important role in absorbing unemployment in rural areas of developing countries. The … employment. The government of Uzbekistan promoted many policies to create jobs within the country. A presidential decree launched … unemployment, especially in rural areas. Against this background, the paper studies non-farm employment trends in rural areas of …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …