Is India in the grip of an employment crisis? This question has acquired a good deal of salience in the wake of media reports that the Indian government has tried to suppress an official report that shows that unemployment has reached historically unprecedented levels. The key findings of the report were leaked to a leading financial newspaper in India.
India’s employment crisis
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I am an Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. I am also a former Chief, Labour Market and Employment Policies Branch, ILO, Geneva. I was educated as an economist at Manchester, Western Ontario and Cambridge. I am one of the founding editors of the Journal of Asia Pacific Economy (Routledge, London and New York). View all posts by Yan