The politics of fear impacts voting behaviour and has consequences on marginalised communities, particularly Muslims and Dalits. It hurts them in terms of long-term policy measures.
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
To sum up this article- Horrible click bait article filled with copy-paste rhetoric of well known phrases. The author’s premise which was supposed to be about job creation quickly turns to “re-skilling”. What is the country supposed to do when hordes of young people join the workforce just to find out there are no jobs? (::I can hear crickets chirping::). We don’t have a reliable labour data collection and the author uses the same logic and data to support jobs growth (with merely his OPINIONS) . Has the author also considered GDP growth in government spending? (Apparently NOT!)
Yet another attempt at misdirection. First the author uses a report thats been discredited for its conflict of interests and criticized for its untested data source for estimating employment. Second, it falls back on the gig economy and under paid self employment as a marker of job creation. The author rubbishes tested methods of data collection that provide a trend line for employment, the author does not quote a range of reports and articles from independent sources that corroborate to not mere jobless growth but a shrinking in real incomes at the bottom. But grandiosely proclaims to have buried the ‘myth of Jobless growth’. The author should take a step back and ponder where the myth is about joblessness or about growth or is it worse that all numbers today are only myths.
“if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.”
Darrell Huff.
Three problems in analysis.
1. Utkarsh Amitabh quotes Das & Das study which is a government financed study based on a secret data set that does not pass tests of academic rigour.
2. Changing the methodology of computing GDP is still a problematic development. Many economist have suggested that it has added 2-3% of pseudo growth. If that is removed then no.s are 4.3% and then accounting for other factors jobless growth is not a mathematical impossibility!
3. If author wants to count startup and pakoda selling as jobs; he must do it even for years prior to 2014. Everything was not invented in 2014.
There is a great problem with the skill landscape because we see education as separate from skills. This can only be corrected by the government.
Regarding the private partnership and corporate strategy around Skilling and Upskilling and Reskilling, a lot is to be done by private sector and emphasis has to shift from delivery to the Quality. When customer demands quality, the supplier has to go for Skilling it’s labour there will be no escape.
Liked the article but when we are saying jobless growth it means that employment rate is not keeping pace with the no. of youth coming in market in the same time frame.
One would reverse the proposition. If jobs are not being created, that is because growth is not happening. Changing the methodology of computing GDP has only given us bragging rights to being the fastest growing large economy in the world.
To sum up this article- Horrible click bait article filled with copy-paste rhetoric of well known phrases. The author’s premise which was supposed to be about job creation quickly turns to “re-skilling”. What is the country supposed to do when hordes of young people join the workforce just to find out there are no jobs? (::I can hear crickets chirping::). We don’t have a reliable labour data collection and the author uses the same logic and data to support jobs growth (with merely his OPINIONS) . Has the author also considered GDP growth in government spending? (Apparently NOT!)
Yet another attempt at misdirection. First the author uses a report thats been discredited for its conflict of interests and criticized for its untested data source for estimating employment. Second, it falls back on the gig economy and under paid self employment as a marker of job creation. The author rubbishes tested methods of data collection that provide a trend line for employment, the author does not quote a range of reports and articles from independent sources that corroborate to not mere jobless growth but a shrinking in real incomes at the bottom. But grandiosely proclaims to have buried the ‘myth of Jobless growth’. The author should take a step back and ponder where the myth is about joblessness or about growth or is it worse that all numbers today are only myths.
“if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.”
Darrell Huff.
Three problems in analysis.
1. Utkarsh Amitabh quotes Das & Das study which is a government financed study based on a secret data set that does not pass tests of academic rigour.
2. Changing the methodology of computing GDP is still a problematic development. Many economist have suggested that it has added 2-3% of pseudo growth. If that is removed then no.s are 4.3% and then accounting for other factors jobless growth is not a mathematical impossibility!
3. If author wants to count startup and pakoda selling as jobs; he must do it even for years prior to 2014. Everything was not invented in 2014.
There is a great problem with the skill landscape because we see education as separate from skills. This can only be corrected by the government.
Regarding the private partnership and corporate strategy around Skilling and Upskilling and Reskilling, a lot is to be done by private sector and emphasis has to shift from delivery to the Quality. When customer demands quality, the supplier has to go for Skilling it’s labour there will be no escape.
Liked the article but when we are saying jobless growth it means that employment rate is not keeping pace with the no. of youth coming in market in the same time frame.
One would reverse the proposition. If jobs are not being created, that is because growth is not happening. Changing the methodology of computing GDP has only given us bragging rights to being the fastest growing large economy in the world.