The Challenge of Ensuring Full Employment in the Twenty-first Century Jayati Ghosh

The recent economic growth process in India and other parts of the developing world exhibits the inability of even high rates of output growth to generate sufficient opportunities for ‘decent work’ to meet the needs of the growing labour force. Therefore, there is a clear case for a shift towards wage-led and domestic demand-led growth, particularly in the economies that are large enough to sustain this shift.

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(This article was originally published in the Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2011.)