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Seasonal Variations in Unemployment and Wage Rate-Implications for Rural Works Programme

Seasonal Variations in Unemployment and Wage Rate Implications for Rural Works Programme S V Sethuraman The main cause of the poverty in India is now recognised as the lack of adequate employment opportunities Vis-a-vis the widespread underemployment and unemployment in the country. Since the Census and NSS data show only a small proportion of the population as 'unemployed', the cause of poverty is mainly underemployment.

Measuring Rural Unemployment to Provide Guidelines to Policy-Makers

Guidelines to Policy-Makers S V Sethuraman The problem of rural unemployment has defied measurement. An investigator usually gets such a range of replies that, in the face of the complexity and apparent nebulousness of the situation, classification becomes difficult.

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