Stepping out of another health evaluation, his suffering was secondary. Instead, he wanted to know how I was dealing with the Berlin cold, the status of my doctoral education, how my family were doing back home
As employment, facilitated and negotiated via digital platforms grows in India, a 'third-way' between formal and informal structures may be the path forward
If the Oxfam report is any indicator, an unequal present implies an exponentially more unequal future, that entrenches within it some of Indian society’s greatest failings.
India has constantly struggled with the endemic crises of poverty and gross wealth inequality, and the work done by Banerjee and Duflo through the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) has looked at tackling the former, in a manner that breaks away from traditional classical approaches to the dilemma.
What is essential here, however, is that the unemployment dilemma, while worrying, is but a symptom of the larger failures in state policies that revolve around skilling and education.
