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Is Rural Non Farm Sector the Last Resort for Employment in India?

Kumar, Manoj - 2008

in agriculture and its allied activities. That's why in India, non-farm activities in rural areas have become …

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Increasing Non-Farm Employment in Uttar Pradesh, India

Singh, Saurabh Pratap; Raju, K. V. - 2022

Uttar Pradesh has a huge upside potential for economic growth if its people are engaged more productively. This study cursorily reviews the prospects of employment creation and argues that UP should focus on the secondary and tertiary sectors for generating self-employment opportunities. In this...

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Employment Growth in Urban Informal Non-Farm Enterprises in Assam

Saikia, Dilip - 2018

The paper analyses the growth in employment in the urban informal non-farm enterprises (INFEs) in the northeastern state of Assam during the first half of the second decade of the 21st century. The findings of the paper has brought out that employment in the urban INFEs has been growing...

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Home-based work and homework in Ghana : an exploration

Darkwah, Akosua Keseboa; Tsikata, Dzodzi - 2021

This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana. As labour statistics on home-based work and homework are absent, the research draws on interviews with 124 individuals working in agro-processing, arts and crafts, industry...

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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

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 …

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Rethinking economic change in India : labour and livelihood

Roy, Tirthankar - 2005

Introduction -- Economic history and modern India : redefining the link -- Rural labour and colonialism -- Agricultural … labour : lessons from wage data -- Was there an industrial decline in India in the early nineteenth century? -- Labour …

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Roles of rural non-farm employment (RNFE) in India : why RNFE, the conveyor of a shock like COVID 19 is also the key to recovery?

Saroj, Sunil; Pradhan, Mamata; Boss, Ruchira; Roy, Devesh - In: Journal of Asian economics 81 (2022), pp. 1-21

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Employment Challenges and Trends in India’s Rural Labour Market with the Impact of MGNREGA

Gokul, K. - 2022

The purpose of this study is to look at development trends and patterns of structural change in India's rural and …

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An Indian enigma? : labour market impacts of the world's largest livelihoods program

Deshpande, Ashwini; Khanna, Shantanu; Walia, Daksh - 2023

We examine the labour market impacts of the largest livelihoods programs in the world, India's Deendayal Antyodaya …-help groups (SHGs). We combine administrative data on SHG membership across districts in India with survey micro-data on labour …

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Impact of mechanisation in agriculture on employment

National Council of Applied Economic Research - 1973

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