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Conference on 50 years of Bank Nationalisation – Indian Banking at Cross Roads
Category: Economy and Society
Call for Papers: 50 years of Bank Nationalisation – Indian Banking at Cross Roads
Last date for abstract submission: Ahmedabad University Conference on 50 years of Bank Nationalization, 16-17 November 2019 at Ahmedabad
Job Creation in the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Sector
Job Creation in the MSME sector in India This article appeared in The India Forum, an online Journal/Magazine on contemporary issues: Forum: On Employment Generation https://www.theindiaforum.in/letters/jobs-msme Also visible on https://www.theindiaforum.in/?newslttr Do write your response or views on ideas for job creation to The India Forum at the id below: ram@theindiaforum.in
Mismatch of Jobs and Skills for Today’s Youth?
Typing and typewriters: An outdated skill? I write on jobs and skills required for the youth in this new world of internet and smartphones[1]. The concerns I highlight in this note based on my research are: What is a good education and appropriate skills for students entering the job market? Is there a mismatch? In … Continue reading Mismatch of Jobs and Skills for Today’s Youth?
What does declining women’s participation and shrinking informal sector tell us?
Much has been written and re-written on the jobs situation in India in the past few weeks. Many accusations and counter accusations on the reliability of data and suppression of government reports on employment have been in the news. In fact 108 Economists and Social Scientists have published a joint statement expressing anguish over the … Continue reading What does declining women’s participation and shrinking informal sector tell us?
In Turmoil: Layered tensions in the Holy Land
As we traversed the Holy Land of Israel we slowly began to feel the tensions beneath. My husband captured this beautifully in the poem that I post at the end of this post. Not having inherited such talent I write in prose of the various manifestations of the tensions beneath. Along the road to Nazareth in North … Continue reading In Turmoil: Layered tensions in the Holy Land
In India, local people bear the cost of high-profit mining ventures
While India has enacted progressive laws to protect the environment and indigenous tribal communities, the mining industry and financial capital are able to evade them with huge costs to the environment and tribal communities. Financial capital and the metal exchange systems in UK and USA combine to take away cultivable lands of the tribal communities … Continue reading In India, local people bear the cost of high-profit mining ventures
