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Demonetisation was an attack on India's informal sector: Rahul Gandhi
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 3 (ANI): Hitting out at the Central government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that demonetisation was an attack on India's informal sector which mainly included poor labourers, farmers and small shopkeepers.
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Centre destroying informal sector, attempt to turn people into slaves: Rah
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 31 (ANI): Lashing out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that the NDA government has been attacking the informal sector over the past 6 years and asserted that the aim of demonetisation, "wrong" Goods and Services Tax (
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Nobel laureate Yunus, Rahul Gandhi stress on informal sector
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacted over video call with Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus over the issues that have emerged for the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and both agreed that the informal sector c
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CEIC Research explores the impact of lockdown on employment and migrants
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 10 (ANI/NewsVoir): India has a large working population, employed in both formal and informal sectors. The largest portion of the formal workforce is engaged in the agricultural sector, 42.4 per cent in 2019.
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COVID-19 may push millions of children into child labour: ILO, UNICEF
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New York/Geneva, June 12 (ANI): Millions of more children risk being pushed into child labour as a result of the COVID-19 crisis which could lead to the first rise in child labour after 20 years of progress, according to a new brief from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and UNICEF
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World Bank announces $1 billion social protection package for India
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The World Bank's board of executive directors has approved a one billion dollar social protection response programme to support India's efforts at providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households which have been severely impacted by the COVID
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Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future cris
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 15 (ANI): The COVID-19 crisis has exposed devastating gaps in social protection coverage in developing countries and recovery will only be sustained and future crises prevented if they can transform their ad hoc crisis response measures into comprehensive social pro
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Lockdown measures worsening poverty and vulnerabilities among informal eco
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 9 (ANI): The Covid-19 lockdown and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world's informal economy workers by as much as 56 percentage points in low-income countries, according to a new briefing paper issued by the International
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Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihood: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 1 (ANI): The continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to COVID-19 outbreak means that 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy -- that is nearly half of the global workforce -- stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed, the Inte
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Protect workers now and after lockdowns ease, says ILO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 28 (ANI): As the pressure mounts on countries to ease their lockdown restrictions, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Tuesday urged governments to take action to prevent and control COVID-19 in the workplace with active involvement and dialogue with em
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400 million Indian workers may sink into poverty due to COVID-19: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 8 (ANI): With 90 per cent of people working in India's informal economy, about 400 million workers are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the coronavirus crisis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.
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Pernod Ricard India Foundation and Akshay Patra, feeding the daily wage wo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI /BusinessWire India): In view of major economic activities shutting down in the country as part of the nationwide lockdown announced on March 23 to combat Covid-19, informal sector workforce including a large section of migrant labour workers and daily wagers
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