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The Employment Linked Incentive scheme could be made more holistic by incorporating skilling and training aspects of work. Emphasis should be laid on increasing awareness, as well as digitising and simplifying processes and payments linked with it. India has experienced job growth, albeit slowly and of poor quality. According to the employment-unemployment survey and periodic...   Read More

Capturing regional disparities is crucial. In COP29, the focus was on finance since countries require significant funding for energy transition. According to International Energy Agency, clean energy investment needs to reach $4.5 trillion a year by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C. The share of renewables in gross electricity generation at the global level...   Read More

The IHDS Forum is a monthly update of socio-economic developments in India by the IHDS research community, based on the India Human Development Survey, jointly conducted by NCAER and the University of Maryland. While two earlier rounds of the survey were completed in 2004-05 and 2011-12, respectively. Fieldwork for the third round was undertaken in...   Read More

Thozhi Hostels deliver high-quality housing solutions for working women, overcoming migration challenges in urban areas. In recent years, India has seen a remarkable increase in female labour force participation, from 25 per cent in 2017-18 to 40 per cent in 2022-23, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey. This surge reflects growing economic aspirations among...   Read More

As COP29 concludes in Baku, the world stands at a critical juncture in addressing the escalating climate crisis. Activist Greta Thunberg’s sharp critique-branding the summit’s draft text as “a complete disaster”-highlights the frustration over unmet promises and insufficient ambition. The Global South’s urgent demand for $1.3 trillion annually by 2035 has been countered by a...   Read More

The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) can play a pivotal role in various economic and geostrategic spheres by facilitating trade integration between Asia and Europe. The study portrays the mechanism through which the IMEC participating economies can achieve their respective policy goals. The study is focused on a dual research objective. Firstly, it attempts to...   Read More

While the dominant patterns of migration for livelihood among the poor in India are rural-to-rural and circular, literature on the health implications of child migration has largely focused on rural-to-urban, permanent movement. We compared child growth across three migration typologies rural Bihar: circular migrant families that repeatedly migrate to rural destination sites with accompanying young...   Read More

Had Joe Biden withdrawn from the US presidential race earlier, there might have been a good chance that his successor would maintain many of his economic-policy initiatives. Now we will see how many of those policies – if any at all – survive another four years of Donald Trump. The New York Times famously prepares obituaries...   Read More

Donald Trump’s recent tariff threats – ranging from a 25% levy on imports from Canada and Mexico to a staggering 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they pursue creating new currency – have sparked global economic unease. For India, these developments pose a vital question: could these protectionist moves by the US inadvertently open doors...   Read More

Trams, with their speed averaging 20 to 30 kilometers per hour, match the pace of most public transport in the city, including buses. When the West Bengal government decided to drastically scale back Kolkata’s 150-year-old tram service, leaving just a short heritage stretch from Maidan to Esplanade, i t igni ted a wave of protests...   Read More

There is a profound mismatch between Germany’s current economy and its institutional inheritance from the postwar period. If the current crisis prompts a wholesale rethink of that inheritance, the logjam blocking necessary reforms could finally be broken. Germany is the poster child for everything that is wrong with the European economy. GDP is on track...   Read More

There is a need to reimagine agriculture with the twin crises of food and energy insecurity set to challenge global priorities. “Addressing food insecurity and energy poverty is central to achieving global stability, but tackling these issues independently is no longer sufficient,” warns the World Bank in its latest report on climate and development. The...   Read More