Women’s labour force participation and access to decent work are important and necessary elements of an inclusive and sustainable development process. Indian women have been dropping out of the workforce for years. For three decades since liberalisation, the female labour force participation rate, or FLFPR, has been dipping. India’s FLFPR declined from 39.7% in 2004-05 […]
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‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, a jargon that has been discussed for a while since Prime Minister Modi spoke about it during the announcement of revival package of COVID-19 for Indian economy. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, according to Prime Minister Modi is making Indian economy both self-reliant and a self-generating. In the era of globalization we live in, India
Last year, on 10th December 2019 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) had released the Human Development Report (HDR) for the year 2018-19. Human Development Index (HDI) focuses on three indicators health, education, and income to determine human development in a country. It includes 189 countries across the world. The HDI rank of India had improved
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With the release of the Draft of National Education Policy 2019 (NEP) in May 2019, India’s education system has become a point of issue due to its falling standards over the years. In 2017, a little more than a quarter of India’s population (roughly 35 crore) were children. If India is to leverage its abundant
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