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Jobs, growth, inequality and the numbers behind them.
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A base-year change revised India’s growth figures — and arrived alongside an IMF downgrade of India’s national-accounts data to a "C" grade.
India’s female labour-force participation has nearly doubled since 2017-18 — but the rise is largely in unpaid family work, not salaried jobs.
The headline unemployment rate eased in 2025 — but the official PLFS data shows urban young women are still locked out at nearly 24%.
Oxfam’s analysis finds India among the most unequal economies on earth — the top 1% hold over 40% of wealth while the bottom half own 3%.
A short-seller’s report wiped out billions in market value and triggered a regulator probe and a Supreme Court case. Here’s the verified state of play.
A decade ago a strong rupee was sold as the mark of a strong government. The rupee hit a record low past 90 to the dollar in December 2025.
India is the world’s 4th-largest economy by total size — but split across 1.4 billion people, per-person income sits close to Bangladesh’s, and the IMF expects Bangladesh to edge ahead in 2026.
States gave up their tax powers for GST on a five-year promise of compensation. That guarantee lapsed in June 2022 — and what replaced it was debt, not assurance.
In September 2025 India collapsed its tangle of GST slabs into a simpler structure — a genuine fix that also carries a real revenue cost.
Headline inflation can look calm while food prices swing hard. Tomatoes, onions and potatoes told the real story of 2024-25.