Tag Search: “skills”
Assessing the effectiveness of active labour market programmes in developing countries
Job growth is a key policy concern across developing countries and there are been an increased interest in the role of active labour market programmes that provide vocational training to job-seekers, ...
- David McKenzie
- 14 August, 2017
- Perspectives
Smart policy for women's economic empowerment in South Asia
In this article, Jennifer Johnson and Nalini Gulati highlight the different trajectories of women’s economic empowerment across South Asia, based on a recent policy dialogue hosted by Evidence for Po...
- Nalini Gulati Jennifer Johnson
- 18 April, 2017
- Perspectives
I4I Panel Discussion: Two years of Modi government
In a panel discussion organised to mark the 4th anniversary of Ideas for India, Parikshit Ghosh (Member of the I4I Editorial Board & Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) moderates a discus...
- Pranab Bardhan Parikshit Ghosh Pratap Bhanu Mehta Mihir Sharma
- 29 August, 2016
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India's informal doctors: Assets, not crooks
Informal healthcare providers are the most common, and sometimes the only source of healthcare, in much of rural India. In this post, Jishnu Das of the World Bank argues that informal providers should...
- Jishnu Das
- 13 June, 2016
- Perspectives
How serious are India's manufacturing skill gaps?
It is widely believed that skill gaps are constraining Indian manufacturing, and closing these gaps has become a national priority. This column argues that the public debate on India’s skill gaps res...
- Aashish Mehta
- 13 April, 2015
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'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
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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