Union Minister Nitin Gadkari declared, 'There is no dearth of money in this country. There is no shortage of funds. There is ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

India’s new rural employment law offers greater fiscal predictability at the cost of higher household exposure to ...

Intensifying its attacks on the working class and rural poor, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government hurriedly pushed the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Providing unskilled public work, the jobs scheme has become a backbone of rural livelihoods in India [Hindustan Times via Getty ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to redesign India’s flagship rural jobs programme has sparked resistance from opposition ...

Our economy is being hailed as being in a Goldilocks phase of high growth and low inflation, but weakening prices can easily ...

Employment guarantees must remain demand-driven, flexible during crises, and rooted in local decision-making; VB-G RAM G ...

Last month, the World Bank released yet another set of poverty estimates for India and bang, bang. The hammer dropped. Extreme poverty is nearly dead. Just some 3.3 crore Indians are extremely poor as ...

The government, while justifying the changes, now argues that the Labour Codes will protect workers’ rights and the ...