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Why is India facing a shortage of gig workers?

The fledgling online delivery platforms are suddenly facing a shortage of delivery partners. Why are gig workers in such a short supply? How is this affecting food delivery and quick commerce firms?

India's jobless rate rises to 7.83% in April, Haryana tops the list: CMIE

Economists say job opportunities have been hit by sluggish domestic demand and the slow pace of economic recovery amid rising prices

Unemployment at peak in Haryana, but govt in denial mode: MLA Balraj Kundu

"The government speaks a white lie when it claims the unemployment rate in the state is only around 6 per cent," Kundu told reporters here

Farmers are doing well

In 2022, India will record the fifth consecutive year of bumper wheat crop

Consumer sentiments improve

The improvement in sentiments during the early months of 2022 essentially reflects an increase in the proportion of households that believe that their current household incomes are better than they we

Why even a UP win won't stem the current regime's slide

Given the magnitude of unemployment, it will be difficult to resolve regardless of whoever becomes chief minister of UP

What do the unemployed do?

The delinking of activities from employment status allows a better understanding of what the unemployed do, or as CPHS informs us, what is the nature of occupation of the unemployed

The treacherous labour statistics

Employment did not exp­and to absorb the unemplo­yed in January. On the contr­ary, it shrank by 3.3 million

Households liked the Union Budget

While equity markets react to budget announcements in real time, households we believe, take a little longer to digest it. Households are not as cued in as financial markets are

Omicron a flash flood, not a wave, economic recovery remains strong: RBI

Infection surge due to Omicron has dented recovery only temporarily

How India affords a falling LPR

We find that the fall in LPR since 2016 has been accompanied with a fall in the proportion of households where more than one person is employed

Households have not recovered

Economic growth is supposed to deliver on these counts and not just on tax collections or freight movement or foreign trade

Here's how India's gig economy and its $5-trn goal by 2025 are connected

By upgrading or augmenting skills, equipping modern tools for better efficiency, people at gig jobs can earn more, some becoming even micro-entrepreneurs

Avert hunger: Continue free rations and MNREGA jobs

At a time like this when the poor are barely beginning to get their household economy together, any weakening of their twin lifelines - free rations and MNREGA - would be grossly insensitive

Employment increases in rural India

In all the major labour market metrics, it is rural India that shows big improvements. Labour conditions improved in urban India also but not as much as they did in rural India

Employment increases by 8.5 million in September, shows CMIE data

The employment in salaried jobs increased to 84.1 million in September from 77.1 million in August

Capex plans snap growth trend in Q2, new projects down 59%: CMIE data

Investments are down over June 2021, as well as over September last year

Employment recovery for salaried class excruciatingly slow: CMIE

The recovery in employment after the pandemic-induced disruptions has been uneven, with job losses being concentrated among salaried employees and entrepreneurs

Middle-class rural India holds a promise

Unless a disruption erupts again, rural India seemed poised to help a recovery in consumer demand

From farms to the kitchen sink

Excess or seasonal labour released from agriculture usually finds its way to construction sites. In the circumstances labour seems to have found employment in the household sector