Economic Growth and Employment: Pre and Post Reform Analysis and Challenges

Economic Growth and Employment: Pre and Post Reform Analysis and Challenges" is a mention worthy product of knowledge on economic literatures with regard to growth-employment relation in contemporary Indian Situation.

This analytical bias of economic growth process has misled economic growth managers in a country like India with large surplus labour force. The resultant effect is pressing demand for an employment oriented growth. Jobless growth is not by far the most desirable form of growth. At the same time overemphasis on employment generation without any regard to productivity and incomes of workers is also not desirable, particularly in an economy where productivity levels and income levels are low.

The entire edited book explains the story of economic growth employment linkages in India over the past four decades. The 28 chapters here have been separated in four sections. Section I describes the linkage effect of growth on employment Section II explains deep rooted analysis of new growth scenario impact on various kinds of employment. Section III puts in place certain empirical evidences from different regions of the country, and Section IV explains its direction: Whether new economic policy inclined high growth is fostering egalitarian growth process or it is sowing the seeds of wide differentition via creating sectoral imbalances in the growth process and help poverty syndrome to perpetrate.