Publications

Publications

State of Working India 2021- One Year of Covid-19

 Centre for Sustainable Employment | May 5, 2021
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Reviving Employment and Livelihoods in India: COVID-19 and After

 Amit Basole | February 25, 2021
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Creating Udyog Sahayak Enterprises Network (USENET) for Employment Generation and Scale-up in the MSME Sector

 T. Muralidharan, Bino Paul and Amit Basole | January 23, 2021
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Microenterprises in India

 Amit Basole and Vidya Chandy | October 16, 2019
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State of Working India 2019

 Centre for Sustainable Employment | April 15, 2019
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State of Working India 2018

 Centre for Sustainable Employment | September 27, 2018
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Who was Impacted and How? Covid-19 Pandemic and the Long Uneven Recovery in India

 Mrinalini Jha, Rahul Lahoti | September 5, 2022
Covid19 Income Poverty
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Did the nation-wide implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence

 Deepti Goel, J.V. Meenakshi and Zaeen De Souza | August 8, 2022
public funds management MGNREGA e-governance
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Loss, Recovery and the Long Road Ahead: Tracking India’s Informal Workers Through the Pandemic

 Paaritosh Nath, Nelson Mandela S and Aishwarya Gawali | May 12, 2022
Covid19 household surveys
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Labour incomes in India: A comparison of PLFS and CMIE-CPHS data

 Mrinalini Jha and Amit Basole | February 15, 2022
income data household surveys income distribution
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How Comparable are India’s Labour Market Surveys?

 Rosa Abraham and Anand Shrivastava | January 8, 2022
labour statisics women's employment
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Financing Fiscal Support under Alternative Policy Frameworks

 Zico Dasgupta | August 24, 2021
Fiscal policy debt
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Improving Survey Quality using Para Data: Lessons from the India Working Survey

 Deepti Goel, Rosa Abraham and Rahul Lahoti | August 16, 2021
surveys
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Where Do They Come From, Where Do They Go? Labour Market Transitions in India

 Rahul Menon and Paaritosh Nath | July 15, 2021
PLFS Employment
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How Much is a Government Job in India Worth?

 Kunal Mangal | June 19, 2021
Employment Compensation
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Down and Out? The Gendered Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on India’s Labour Market

 Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole and Surbhi Kesar | February 18, 2021
Covid19 Employment Informality gender
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Covid-19 Crisis: An Indictment of India’s Informal Economy

 Jenny Sulfath and Balu Sunilraj | February 10, 2021
labour laws Covid19 Employment Informality
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Explaining COVID-19 Lockdown, Employment and Migration in India: Challenges and Prospects

 Purna Chandra Parida and Yogesh Suri | February 10, 2021
Covid19 Employment migration
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Technical & Vocational Education and Training in India: Lacking Vision, Strategy and Coherence

 Santosh Mehrotra | February 10, 2021
Employment skills vocational education
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A Short Note on Debt-Neutral Fiscal Policy

 Zico Dasgupta | January 26, 2021
Fiscal policy debt
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Tracking Employment Trajectories during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Indian Panel Data

 Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole and Surbhi Kesar | January 19, 2021
Covid19 Employment Informality
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Can a Machine Learn Democracy?

 Rajendran Narayanan, Sakina Dhorajiwala, Chakradhar Buddha | January 6, 2021
MGNREGA
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Labour Reforms in the Indian State of Rajasthan: a boon or a bane?

 Diti Goswami and Sourabh Paul | January 6, 2021
labour laws job creation states
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Mechanisms of Surplus Appropriation in the Informal Sector: A Case Study of Tribal Migrants in Ahmedabad’s Construction Industry

 Rahul De | October 25, 2020
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Economic Transition, Dualism, and Informality in India: Nature and Patterns of Household-level Transitions

 Surbhi Kesar | October 25, 2020
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Income Distribution and Effective Demand in the Indian Economy

 Zico Dasgupta | August 11, 2020
aggregate demand
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Did Employment Rise or Fall in India between 2011 and 2017? Estimating Absolute Changes in the Workforce

 Paaritosh Nath and Amit Basole | August 11, 2020
employment generation PLFS
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Building a Social Security Architecture for Informal Workers in India, Finally!

 Santosh Mehrotra | July 31, 2020
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Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: Impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods in India

 Surbhi Kesar, Rosa Abraham, Rahul Lahoti, Paaritosh Nath, Amit Basole | June 26, 2020
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Fiscal Transfers and Inflation: Evidence from India

 Girish Bahal and Anand Shrivastava | December 18, 2019
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The Size Structure of India’s Enterprises: Not Just the Middle is Missing

 Santosh Mehrotra and Tuhinsubhra Giri | December 18, 2019
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Industrial Policies in India: Did They Work?

 Raavi Aggarwal | November 18, 2019
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India’s Employment Crisis: Rising Education Levels and Falling Non-agricultural Job Growth

 Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati Parida | October 31, 2019
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Inequalities in the Gendered Labour Market: What can be Done?

 Santosh Mehrotra | July 28, 2019
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How Comparable are India’s Labour Market Surveys?: A comparison of NSS, Labour Bureau and CMIE Estimates

 Rosa Abraham and Anand Shrivastava | May 16, 2019
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Towards higher female work participation in India: what can be done?

 Santosh Mehrotra and Sharmistha Sinha | January 23, 2019
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The Evolving Discourse on Job Quality- From Normative Frameworks to Measurement Indicators: The Indian Example

 Sabina Dewan and Divya Prakash | January 23, 2019
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Long-Run Performance of the Organised Manufacturing Sector in India: Aggregate Trends and Industry-level Variation

 Amit Basole and Amay Narayan | June 16, 2018
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Changes in Production Regimes and Challenges to Collective Bargaining: A study of the Gurgaon Industrial Belt

 Nayanjyoti and Amit Basole | May 30, 2018
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Pride and Prejudice: The Condition of Handloom Weavers in West Bengal

 Rajesh Bhattacharya and Sarmishtha Sen | May 23, 2018
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Labour Absorption in Indian Manufacturing: The Case of the Garment Industry

 Jayan Jose Thomas and Chinju Johny | May 18, 2018
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Hard Work , Low Pay : Work Patterns Among Rural Women in West Bengal

 Anuradha Talwar | May 18, 2018
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Bijolia’s Harvest of Stone: Conditions of Work Among Quarrying Labour in Rajasthan

 Anumeha Yadav | May 12, 2018
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Gender Differentials in Expansion of Informal Enterprises

 Jeemol Unni and Ravikiran Naik | May 12, 2018
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Domestic Workers and the Challenges of Collective Action in Informal Work

 Balmurli Natarajan and Rajesh Joseph | May 4, 2018
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Recrafting Indian Industry: A Note

 Aseem Shrivastava | May 4, 2018
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The Indian Labour Market: A Fallacy, Two Looming Crises and a Silent Tragedy

 Santosh Mehrotra | May 1, 2018
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Realizing India’s Demographic Dividend

 A. Srija | April 24, 2018
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Of “Missing Middle” and Size-based Regulation

 R. Nagaraj | April 7, 2018
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A Policy Proposal for Green Jobs in India

 Rohit Azad and Shouvik Chakraborty | April 7, 2018
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Analysis of Payment Delays and Delay Compensation in MGNREGA

 Rajendran Narayanan, Sakina Dhorajiwala, and Rajesh Golani | April 7, 2018
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The Evolution of India’s Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates

 Arjun Jayadev and Amay Narayan | March 7, 2018
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Women Workers in India – Labour Force Trends, Occupational Diversification, and Wage Gaps

 Bidisha Mondal, Jayati Ghosh, Shiney Chakraborty, and Sona Mitra  | March 7, 2018
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Understanding the Performance of India’s Manufacturing Sector: Evidence from Firm Level Data

 Radhicka Kapoor | March 7, 2018
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An Approach to the Problem of Employment in India

 Deepankar Basu | March 7, 2018
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In Covid-19, the rural job plan was a big safety net

 Amit Basole and Rajendran Narayanan | October 22, 2022
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Number theory: Shrinking public sector employment and its costs

 Pabitra Chowdhury and Rosa Abraham | September 1, 2022
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बजट में कोरोना से निपटने की तैयारियों के साथ इससे हुए नुकसान से लोगों को उबारने का करें उपाय

 Mrinalini Jha | January 13, 2022
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Covid-19 and the Informalisation of India’s Salaried Workers

 Rosa Abraham and Amit Basole | January 3, 2022
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Covid-19 and India’s youth workforce

 Rosa Abraham | December 16, 2021
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How household incomes were affected by Covid

 Mrinalini Jha | December 15, 2021
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No country for young workers: How demonetisation has hurt a generation of Indians

 Rosa Abraham and Anand Shrivastava | November 10, 2021
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Covid-19: Impact on income inequality in India

 Mrinalini Jha and Rahul Lahoti | September 1, 2021
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Mere growth in a sector doesn’t translate to benefits for workers

 Mrinalini Jha and Rosa Abraham | July 27, 2021
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Reading between pandemic’s economic shockwaves: Among worst hit are our teachers and small business owners

 Mrinalini Jha and Rosa Abraham | July 15, 2021
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Amit Basole on the pandemic’s devastating impact and the need for a fiscal response now

 Amit Basole | June 5, 2021
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Surviving Covid second wave: Cash support of Rs 15,000 per family a possible solution?

 Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham | May 19, 2021
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Second COVID Wave To Hit Jobs, Economy Harder

 Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham | May 19, 2021
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गरीबों को मदद से ही सुधरेगी अर्थव्यवस्था: तहस-नहस अर्थव्यवस्था और बर्बादी के कगार पर खड़े लोग एक ही सिक्के के दो पहलू हैं

 Mrinalini Jha and Amit Basole | May 17, 2021
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It is getting from bad to worse for women workers

 Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham | May 17, 2021
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1 year of Covid and the way forward

 Rosa Abraham | May 5, 2021
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Post-lockdown misery of India’s migrant workers

 Rajendran Narayanan | March 24, 2021
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Have the labour markets recovered post-lockdown?

 Rosa Abraham and Amit Basole | January 26, 2021
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Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless

 Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole and Surbhi Kesar | January 20, 2021
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The Time Is Right for an Urban Employment Guarantee Programme

 Amit Basole, Rajendran Narayanan, Anand Shrivastava and Rakshita Swamy | November 30, 2020
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Hunger, nutrition are worse than before lockdown. PDS must be universalised

 Dipa Sinha and Rajendran Narayanan | November 26, 2020
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NREGA didis of Kurhani

 Rajendran Narayanan | November 4, 2020
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Labour’s data lost

 Rajendran Narayanan and Bishwa Pandey | October 15, 2020
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When the state is silent, it becomes the citizen’s duty to speak up and express dissent

 Aruna Roy and Rajendran Narayanan | September 5, 2020
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‘Dekh Li Democracy?’: What I Learned During a Few Hours in Ramban

 Rajendran Narayanan | August 13, 2020
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Hunger Grows as India’s Lockdown Kills Jobs

 Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, Surbhi Kesar and Paaritosh Nath | May 29, 2020
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Locked down in distress

 Sakina Dhorajiwala and Rajendran Narayanan  | May 9, 2020
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Patents vs. the Pandemic

 Joseph E Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev and Achal Prabhala  | April 23, 2020
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The COVID-19 Lockdown Will Ravage Prospects for India’s Female Workforce

 Hema Swaminathan and Rahul Lahoti | April 15, 2020
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5 Ways For India To Fund Massive Economic Stimulus Package

 Arjun Jayadev | April 14, 2020
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In Yes Bank crisis, you can’t miss the ugly realities of India’s private sector lenders

 Arjun Jayadev and Avinash Tripathi | March 12, 2020
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‘Dictatorship’, no ‘accountability’, no jobs: People in Jammu say Modi govt has failed them

 Rajendran Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey | January 4, 2020
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Privatising a public good

 Surbhi Kesar, Devika Dutt and Zico Dasgupta  | December 20, 2019
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Common Service Centres The Emperor’s New Clothes

 Inayat Sabhikhi, Rahul Lahoti and Rajendran Narayanan | November 1, 2019
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A Dogra from Jammu deplores the “slow death of our basic and fundamental humanity”

 Surbhi Kesar  | September 30, 2019
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Share Of Regular Salaried Work Rises, But Women More Likely To Be Self-Employed

 Janaki Shibu and Rosa Abraham | July 2, 2019
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Modi’s Greatest Trick: Turning Our Deepest Insecurities Into A System of Governance

 Rajendran Narayanan and Sayandeb Chowdhury | May 22, 2019
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The need for urban employment scheme (in Hindi)

 Amit Basole and Rajendran Narayanan | April 4, 2019
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The politics of information

 Rajendran Narayanan , Rakshita Swamy and Nikhil Dey  | April 4, 2019
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The Employment Question in India Politics, Economics, and the Way Forward

 Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev | April 3, 2019
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Focus on Small Towns and It Will Be Boomtown India

 Methew Idiculla, Amit Basole and Rajendran Narayanan  | March 31, 2019
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Guaranteeing urban jobs

 Rajendran Narayanan, Amit Basole and Mathew Idiculla | March 30, 2019
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The shape of an urban employment guarantee

 Mathew Idiculla, Rajendran Narayanan and Amit Basole | March 29, 2019
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Where has all the jobs data gone?

 Rosa Abraham, Janaki Shibu, Rajendran Narayanan | January 30, 2019
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Unprecedented drop in job creation cause for worry

 Amit Basole  | January 1, 2019
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An imaginary friend

 Sakina Dhorajiwala and Rajendran Narayanan  | November 1, 2018
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Azim Premji University economists respond to criticism about jobs report

 Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev | October 10, 2018
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Employment and wage challenges (in Hindi)

 Amit Basole and Anand Shrivastava | October 3, 2018
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More Proof that India’s Creating Fewer Jobs: This is Why

 Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev | September 28, 2018
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Did the Indian economy create nearly 13 million jobs in 2017?

 Amit Basole and Anand Shrivastava | September 5, 2018
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Social identity and perceived income adequacy

 Ashwini Deshpande and Deepti Goel | June 13, 2018
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Development Will Not Cure Gender Inequality, Policy Will: Examining the Economic Survey 2017-18

 Rahul Lahoti | May 26, 2018
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The Great Aadhaar Game: Don’t be Arbitrary, be Cleverly Random

 Rajendran Narayanan | April 5, 2018
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In terms of job creation, Union Budget has little to offer

 Amit Basole  | February 2, 2018
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Identifying an effective teacher in public schools in Delhi

 Bidisha Barooah and Deepti Goel | December 26, 2017
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Long-run trends in rural wages

 Amit Basole  | October 24, 2017
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Intellectual property for the twenty-first-century economy

 Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dean Baker and Arjun Jayadev  | October 23, 2017
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Poverty in India: Measurement and eradication

 Amit Basole | October 17, 2017
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The ‘Pey’ and ‘Bhutam’ in India’s Technology-Fuelled Development Crusade

 Rajendran Narayanan | September 9, 2017
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After 70 years Independence, Indian economy remains dominated by the informal sector

 Amit Basole | August 14, 2017
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Let us not make job creation in India a number game

 Amit Basole | July 26, 2017
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Indian farmers are dying from abysmally low wages

 Amit Basole | July 10, 2017
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Communalism Has Been Injected Even in Bread and Butter Issues of Jharkhand

 Rajendran Narayanan | June 27, 2017
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Why is India’s growth not creating more jobs?

 Amit Basole | June 13, 2017
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Jobless Growth Plagues India

 Amit Basole | June 5, 2017
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The decline of rural earning inequality in India

 Deepti Goel, Shantanu Khanna and Rene Morissette | April 5, 2017
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A guarantee, an illusion

 Rajendran Narayanan , Sakina Dhorajiwala | February 14, 2017
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Jobless growth still the leitmotif

 Amit Basole  | February 2, 2017
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In Defence of Activism in Universities

 Rajendran Narayanan | December 21, 2016
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Minimum wage: wage subsidy is the solution to income disparity

 Amit Basole | September 5, 2016
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Women and the Indian job market: Glass ceiling or sticky floor?

 Ashwini Deshpande and Deepti Goel | June 10, 2016
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No Guarantee In Mahabubnagar

 Chakradhar Buddha and Rajendran Narayanan | February 4, 2016
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Geographical Indication: Will it Save Traditional Indian Art?

 Amit Basole  | October 23, 2015
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Income inequality in India: Trends from the World Top Incomes Database

 Amit Basole  | August 31, 2015
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The mystery is solved: why is India’s calorie intake falling even though it is getting richer?

 Amit Basole  | May 4, 2015
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The 2015-2016 Budget: Business as Usual?

 Amit Basole  | March 10, 2015
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Obama Versus Obamacare

 Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dean Baker and Arjun Jayadev  | February 10, 2015
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What explains declining calorie consumption in India?

 Amit Basole and Deepankar Basu  | June 16, 2014
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Why is Calorie Intake Falling if Incomes are Rising in India?

 Amit Basole and Deepankar Basu  | May 14, 2014
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The 2014 Budget in Perspective: Pushing Forward the Anti-People Agenda

 Amit Basole  | May 1, 2014
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Did the metro help reduce air pollution in Delhi?

 Deepti Goel and Sonam Gupta | May 17, 2013
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India’s Patently Wise Decision

 Joseph E. Stiglitz and Arjun Jayadev  | April 8, 2013
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Lokavidya ki Rajniti (A Politics of People’s Knowledge, in Hindi)

 Amit Basole  | July 1, 2011
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Agrarian Change in North India: Evidence from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh

 Amit Basole  | September 27, 2010
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Subverting Our Epics: Mani Ratnam’s Retelling of the Ramayana

 Amit Basole  | July 17, 2010
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Asangathit kshetra mein gyan kaa shoshan (Exploitation of Knowledge in the Informal Sector, in Hindi)

 Amit Basole  | March 1, 2010
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The Almond Workers of Karawal Nagar, Delhi: A Report

 Amit Basole  | February 8, 2010
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The “People’s Movement Left” and Rammanohar Lohia: an evaluation at a time of crisis

 Amit Basole  | June 13, 2009
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Published Research by CSE Fellows

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