PARSAUNI, India — This ... backbone of rural employment — are vanishing, leaving few options but subsistence agriculture. “We will grow so old just stuck on this farm,” Geetanjali lamented ...

In 2005, India introduced a national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which offered up to 100 days of unskilled manual labor per year on ...

highlights that employment generation is critical to leverage India’s demographic dividend and accelerate its shift from an ...