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Making skills self-healing

Making skills self-healing

Investment competition between states is increasing even as opportunities for offering investment tax incentives are diminishing. States are left with three levers for differentiation — ease of doing...

Cities: Our policy orphans

Cities: Our policy orphans

Cities are complicated organizations all over the world but Indian cities suffer the friendly fire of being policy orphans for three reasons. Firstly, State Chief Ministers are unwilling...

Revamping India’s 3E’s

Revamping India’s 3E’s

The Apprenticeship Act amendments mean that apprenticeship growth rates are more than 150% annually after decades of stagnation. Our target should be crossing Germany’s 2.7% of its labour...

Is your boss a Queen Bee?

Is your boss a Queen Bee?

Devil wears Prada Female bosses are accused of being extremely tough on their sub-ordinates. The theory says that women are not natural leaders, and fear their effectiveness. The...

FORGET TOXIC SHORTCUTS

FORGET TOXIC SHORTCUTS

Over the last three years the Ministry of Labour has not displayed strategy, stamina or sequencing and unimaginatively equated labour reform with tackling Chapter VB of the Industrial...

Jobs, facts and fiction

Jobs, facts and fiction

India’s labour markets are confusing, and I’d like to make the case that, one, India has more formal jobs than we think; two, our primary policy challenge is...