Tag Search: “skills”
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