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Business News > Mint Authors > Vidya Mahambare

Vidya Mahambare

ARTICLES BY VIDYA MAHAMBARE

India needs more skilled jobs to accommodate the entry of more educated women into the workforce, alongside men. (Mint)

DEI defence: How to promote diversity and prevent a backlash

4 min read . 30 Mar 2025

In BUB, the share of manufacturing in their economies has hovered around 12% since 2017-18.

India’s BUB challenge: Why Bihar, UP and Bengal must industrialize rapidly

4 min read . 27 Oct 2024

Though our better-industrialized states continued to account for about half the country’s manufacturing, the sector’s relative contribution to their state economies fell. (Mint)

India’s 25%-of-GDP target for manufacturing remains a steep challenge

4 min read . 13 Oct 2024

Managers and human resource departments are crucial in enabling a cooperative work culture where employees feel valued.

India’s problem of overwork and what the youth must do to stay in demand

4 min read . 04 Oct 2024

Family size affects spending on food, especially protein-rich food such as milk, which is relatively expensive.

White Revolution 2.0 must ensure no child is left behind

4 min read . 10 Sep 2024

Among India’s major states, a higher proportion of service households own a car than industrial households, except in Odisha. (HT_PRINT)

Car ownership reveals much about the shape and state of our economy

4 min read . 15 Aug 2024

Demand-side determinants include a lack of job opportunities, especially near homes and in sectors where women traditionally work. (Mint)

Is Uttar Pradesh stuck with low women's participation in its labour force?

4 min read . 01 Aug 2024

Since rents in our cities are so high that even after a rent subsidy, private housing remains largely unaffordable to the urban poor. (Mint)

Urbanization pressure: India’s housing policy needs a big rethink

4 min read . 22 Apr 2024

If correctly accounted for, it is possible that the rural poor receive higher transfers of several central and state government schemes than the urban poor do.

Disparity between rural and urban consumption is less than what it looks like

4 min read . 17 Apr 2024

For high-skilled women, such as those working in IT, a cab or a company transport makes it hard to keep flexible timings.

Well-aimed policies can enhance women’s employment

4 min read . 02 Apr 2024

Although urban residents, on average, have higher consumption spending than their rural counterparts within each state, there are instances where the average rural resident in some states outspends the average urban resident in other states.

What tells us more about prosperity: Consumption or GDP per head?

4 min read . 19 Mar 2024

Direct employment by IT services in India is estimated at 5.1 million, so about 3 million jobs are export-related. (Bloomberg)

A tale of India’s two big export industries: And a lesson on incentives

4 min read . 21 Jan 2024

According to our text sentiment analysis, India’s incumbent FM has delivered the sample’s top three speeches with the highest share of positive-sentiment sentences. (ANI)

Sitharaman’s budget speeches have mostly been positive in tone despite covid

4 min read . 16 Jan 2024

The accessibility of easy financing options has made smartphones and other consumer durables more attainable for low-income households. (Bloomberg)

A prudential approach to risk management must not hold back credit availability

4 min read . 11 Jan 2024

There is no one-to-one link between growth in services and average prosperity. It depends on the type of services (high- or low-skill) that are expanding.

Manufacturing versus services: It’s not one or the other

4 min read . 27 Dec 2023

The worker-population ratio for women rose to nearly 36 from 22, driven by more rural women taking up farm work.

There is more to India's mystery of raised employment post-pandemic

4 min read . 03 Dec 2023

Net household financial savings seem to be still about 20% of household income, calculated roughly as household consumption from GDP plus household savings.

Are Indians saving enough? There is no clear answer

4 min read . 09 Oct 2023

Typically, service charge collections are distributed among customer-facing employees like servers as well as backroom workers such as cleaners and cooks.

To tip or not to tip and the dilemma of a service charge

4 min read . 27 Sep 2023

Higher quality theatres with the latest audio-visual technology have higher fixed costs.

Jailor, Jawan, Tinker, Spy: A tale of market distortion

4 min read . 15 Sep 2023

Given high dependence on monsoon rains and inefficiencies in supply chains, food inflation in India will remain volatile for the foreseeable future. (MINT_PRINT)

Factory item prices must cool for lasting inflation relief

4 min read . 23 Jul 2023