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Business News > Mint Authors > Himanshu

Himanshu

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ARTICLES BY HIMANSHU

Many labour market changes are driven by female employment, particularly in rural areas and agriculture.

Rosy employment data from PLFS must not lead to policy-level complacency

3 min read . 30 Nov 2023

While cereals are important, the solitary focus on these two grains goes against the stated objective of the Act, which mandates the government to expand the food basket to include pulses, edible oil and other nutritious food.

Nutrition gap: Don't reduce India's food security law to a grain handout scheme

3 min read . 17 Nov 2023

Together, regular and casual workers account for almost half of all the workers in the economy.

Wages and earnings do not back the euphoria over our economy

3 min read . 20 Oct 2023

The demand for a caste census is an old one, recommended even by Mandal Commission's report in 1980.

The Bihar caste survey marks a big step towards a reality check

3 min read . 05 Oct 2023

While the government banned wheat exports in May 2022 soon after claiming to feed the world, subsequent actions on stock limits have only created a fear of rising prices.

Inflation management: Time to explore an alternative paradigm

3 min read . 22 Sep 2023

The yin depicts fostering the right culture for performance to flourish, with a focus on helping leaders and employees engage in a dialogue

The yin and yang method of improving employees' performance

4 min read . 21 Sep 2023

Data inputs on the country’s household sector, as well as informal segments of the manufacturing and services sectors, are extrapolations of organized- sector data to a significant extent. (AP)

We require reliable economic data for policy responses

4 min read . 12 Sep 2023

The sudden increase in food prices is worrisome as it comes at a time when retail food inflation remains firm. Photo: Mint

India’s latest episode of inflation holds lessons in its management

3 min read . 25 Aug 2023

Fiscal worries over public expenditure for social protection are not new. The enactment of MGNREGA and the National Food Security Act (NFSA) were also preceded by such debates.

What look like freebies are part of a welcome new social contract

3 min read . 10 Aug 2023

Not all states have done equally well in lifting people out of extreme poverty. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

India needs multiple measures to get proper clarity on poverty

3 min read . 28 Jul 2023

There is no way to conclude definitively which way poverty has moved and comparing MPI with other estimates does not help.

India needs multiple measures to get clarity on poverty

3 min read . 28 Jul 2023

Signs abound of prices of food items such as foodgrains staying elevated for now, and this poses a challenge for the government in protecting the less fortunate from the brunt of high inflation.

Protect rural incomes to tackle the current food security threat

3 min read . 14 Jul 2023

India needs stronger statistical system for better policymaking

3 min read . 30 Jun 2023

The entire manufacturing sector added just 3 million workers between 2011-12 and 2021-22, a period of 10 years, with almost all of this increase in just the last year. Even this paltry increase has been largely in the share of small and unorganized firms. (BLOOMBERG NEWS)

India’s slow but sure de-industrialisation is worrying

1 min read . 15 Jun 2023

Economic performance needs to be judged from a structural lens

Economic performance needs to be judged from a structural lens

3 min read . 02 Jun 2023

While the full impact of El Niño will be known only later, adverse weather has already started affecting agriculture. (BLOOMBERG)

A food security threat is looming over the country’s poor this year

3 min read . 19 May 2023

We shouldn’t let Indian poverty turn into a great eternal mystery

3 min read . 05 May 2023

We require reliable data on caste to meet our aims of social justice

3 min read . 21 Apr 2023

Unlike rural wages, there is no corresponding series on urban wages from the labour bureau, which offers information on wages in the non-farm sector by industry groups

Worker incomes in India are still signalling tough circumstances

3 min read . 24 Mar 2023

(File photo) A strong piece of evidence of distress is a statistically observed workforce shift back to agriculture, thereby reversing the gains of a structural transformation in the economy between 2004-05 and 2017-18. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Labour data points to significant distress in the Indian economy

3 min read . 10 Mar 2023