How Indian women are being held back by patriarchal perceptions of violence and safety
Women choose lower paying jobs and face restrictions on the kind of careers they can choose because of concerns around their safety.
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Economist Ashwini Deshpande on why reservations are not the right instrument to alleviate poverty
Reservations were conceptualised as compensation for social discrimination, not economic deprivation, argues Deshpande, while discussing the apex court verdict.
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Consistency in NSSO Employment–Unemployment Estimates Using NSS 68th Round and PLFS Data
The unemployment rate in the country increased sharply to 6.1%, as per the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017–18 data, from 2.2%, based on the National Sample Survey, 68th round, 2011–12. A few have raised questions regarding methodological differences, mainly concerning the second-stage household sample stratification procedure not adopted in proportion to the respective
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'EWS Reservation Is Very Much A Caste-Based Quota'
It is a travesty that for the first time in India, the groups that have the highest proportion of below poverty line individuals are excluded from the Economically Weaker Section reservation that is, in principle, meant to target economic deprivation regardless of caste, says economist Ashwini Deshpande
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Supreme Court upholds 10% quota for Economically Weaker Sections, 'it doesn't violate constitution'
The hearing in the case, lasted for nearly seven days, where a battery of senior lawyers argued for the petitions and Attorney General K.K. Venugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta defended the EWS quota before a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, and comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S. Ravindra Bhat, Bela M. Trivedi, and J.B. Pardiwala.
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