After recording some improvement in recent years, the growth in female labour force participation rate in India now seems to be stagnating. Among the women who work, the share of those who are self-employed has been increasing in recent years, even as their average earnings, already low, have dwindled further. Read more

Several features of the Union Budget for FY 2023-24 are praiseworthy but with the clouds still hanging over the global economy, will the Finance Minister’s assumptions be put to test? Read more

Of the millions of workers who worked in India’s factories in 2019-20, less than a fifth were women Read more

Our year-end special looking back at 2022 from the lens of data Read more

The Global Hunger Index, an international tool developed to track hunger, has its flaws and limitations. So, what are some other data sources that measure hunger and malnutrition, and what do they show? Read more