Should we scrap quarterly job surveys?

A government panel examined the records of employees surveyed by Labour Bureau’s quarterly enterprises surveys and mapped it with EPFO's subscribers and found “unexplained......

Er, how many jobs were actually created in the non-farm sector in 2017?

ASK Wealth Advisors says 5 million, CMIE’s estimate is 2 million and Ghosh & Ghosh said it was 7 million! Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Amid debate over employment generation in......

'All we can tell you is the GDP figures. After that you are free to speculate'

It is not a good idea to take the line that since demonetisation happened in the third quarter, everything that happened then was a consequence of that, says Chief Statistician TCA Anant. As......

Need private investment for faster growth: Rajan

On the controversy surrounding the GDP numbers based on new calculations, he said statisticians have done as good a job as they can and economic growth is significantly high as costs have come down......