1st Edition
The Great Disconnect The Paradox of India’s Economic Growth and Employment Crisis
Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. India’s Elusive Quest for Inclusive Development: An Employment Perspective
3. From Jobless to Jobloss Growth: Gainers and Losers in India’s Employment Performance during 2012-18
4. India’s Loss of Job, Work, and Income in the time of Covid-19 Pandemic
With Mohd Imran Khan
5. The Great Disconnect: Growth without Decent Employment
6. Wage Inequalities in India
7. India’s Labour Question is also a Social Question: Inequalising Growth and Increasing Social Inequality
8. Not by Growth Alone: The Challenge of Development in a Globalized World
9. Social Security in the Lockdown: A Time to Revisit the NCEUS Recommendations
10. Organising the Unorganised: Some Reflections on Emerging Perspectives
Appendix Tables
Bibliography
Index
Biography
K.P. Kannan, development economist, is a former Director and currently an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala State, India. Professor Kannan worked in several capacities on national and international assignments including as a Member of India’s erstwhile National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector. He has authored a number of books and research papers including Interrogating Inclusive Growth: Poverty and Inequality in India, published by Routledge in 2014.
