Sandhya Krishnan is an economist in the School of Development at Azim Premji University. Sandhya received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam and MA in Economics from the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Mumbai.
The Bombay School of Economics, now known as the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, an autonomous department of the University of Mumbai, completed 100 years on 1 August 2021. In this article, we attempt to look at the various facets of one of the oldest departments in the country.
These are the 11 books in progress that the Rs 18-lakh New India Foundation fellowships will support
The books are meant to be works of non-fiction that throw light on an aspect of post-1947 India. 4 hours ago Novelist and poet Anjum Hasan is one of the 11 recipients of the fellowship. She will write a book on Shillong. | Zac O Yeah India is not known for funding literary projects in the making. There are – or were, before pandemic – several literary prizes, but these are or were given well after the winning books are published. And although there are prizes or categories for non-fiction books among them, the focus is on fiction.
. Rural female employment rate was 9.70 per cent as compared to 68.16 per cent among male.
The economic shocks in the form of demonetisation and GST, along with Covid-19pandemic-induced lockdown, have disproportionately hit the Female Labour Force Participation Rate as women between the age group of 15 to 44 have suffered 52.4 per cent job losses in 2020, experts said.
The experts including Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt Ltd, and Ravinder Kaur, professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, IIT, Delhi were speaking at the two-day online national conference on ‘Women@Work’ organised by the Pune International Centre (PIC) along with Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy (MSEPP), and India Development Foundation.
Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 21:14 IST
According to CMIE, India’s biggest challenge on the employment front is getting its womenfolk into the labour force Urban women workforce participation rate shrinks to its lowest in November since 2016, says CMIE
New Delhi: The urban female labour participation rate in the country fell to its lowest in November at 6.9% since the data was first computed in 2016. The trend is against expectation as urban women are more educated and there are better job opportunities in urban India, says Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
Speaking on Friday at the Women@Work conference organised by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune International Centre, India Development Foundation and the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, Vyas said during 2018 and 2019, when there were no economic shocks, the female participation in the labour force had stabilised at 11%, which indicate