This article focuses on the growth-employment relationship and the determinants of labour force participation rate. In the time-series framework, employment is seen to have a greater impact on GDP rather than vice versa. This is quite consistent with the literature that employment contracts can...

The paper assesses the impact of economic reforms on poverty incidence by decomposing the change in poverty ratio into growth/mean effect, inequality effect, and population shift effect for the rural and urban areas of 15 major states and at the all-India level. Using National Sample Surveys,...