Tag Search: “skills”
'Cry, the Beloved Country': Mending Punjab's economy
The growth rate of Punjab, which once ranked among India’s most affluent states, is slowing. In this article, Nirvikar Singh, who holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at U...
- Nirvikar Singh
- 11 February, 2015
- Articles
A conversation on Bihar
I4I Guest Editor Karthik Muralidharan (Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego) speaks with Anjani Kumar Singh (Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar) during the IGC Grow...
- Karthik Muralidharan Anjani Singh
- 03 November, 2014
- Perspectives
Andhra Pradesh's youth training and employment scheme: Did it work?
To promote youth employment, the state government of Andhra Pradesh launched an innovative public-private partnership programme for skill development, training and job placement for the youth. This n...
- Rajendra Kondepati
- 07 July, 2014
- Notes from the Field
Expanding productive employment in India
While India’s relatively high growth has not entirely been ‘jobless’, employment generation has been low, and mostly in the form of informal jobs. This column examines the employment experience of In...
- Mahendra Dev
- 20 January, 2014
- Articles
Muktidhara: A sustainable livelihood project in West Bengal
In this ‘Note from the Field’, two Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows describe a government funded project in the state of West Bengal that seeks to generate self-employment opportunities and ...
- Sourabh Bhattacharjee Animesh Ghosh
- 14 October, 2013
- Notes from the Field
Does it pay to speak English in India?
There is a widely held belief that there are sizeable economic returns to English-language skills in India. This column seeks to estimate the wage returns to English skills in India. It is found that ...
- Mehtabul Azam Aimee Chin Nishith Prakash
- 20 September, 2013
- Articles
Choosing to be trained: Behavioural restrictions on participation decisions
Widespread unemployment has prompted policymakers to consider introduction of various training programmes that can help workers accumulate additional skills to obtain new jobs and/ or retain current ...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Lata Gangadharan Pushkar Maitra Subha Mani Samyukta Subramanian
- 02 September, 2013
- Articles
Vocational education: A means to an end?
Youth underemployment, especially among less educated populations perpetuates poverty. Despite the importance of youth unemployment, there is little knowledge on how to create smooth school-to-work tr...
- Pushkar Maitra Subha Mani
- 15 July, 2013
- Articles
The push and pull of skilling
Vocational training has been centre-stage in policy discussions in India over the past decade. This article discusses the perspectives of and dissatisfaction among the four groups of stakeholders in s...
- Madhav Chavan
- 22 March, 2013
- Notes from the Field
Why is poverty declining so slowly in India?
Despite two decades of fast growth of per capita GDP, India has experienced a very slow decline in poverty. The column suggests that this disconnect between GDP growth and poverty decline can largely ...
- Arka Roy Chaudhuri Ashok Kotwal
- 25 February, 2013
- Articles
Himayat - A silent skills revolution in the making
In this Note from the Field, Varad Pande of the Ministry of Rural Development discusses the Himayat programme in Jammu and Kashmir which offers skills-training and a job to unemployed young people in ...
- Varad Pande
- 31 October, 2012
- Notes from the Field
Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
This project estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a subsidised vocational training programme aimed at improving labour market outcomes of women residing in low-income househo...
- Pushkar Maitra Subha Mani
- 01 July, 2012
- IGC Research on India