Economy booms but India's young hanker for government jobs

Despite living in the world’s fastest-growing major economy, many people find job opportunities and security hard to come by. Many see government employment as more secure than private-sector jobs. Read More

India ‘clearly has a problem' finding new drivers for economic growth, JPMorgan's Jahangir Aziz says

India “clearly has a problem” figuring out new drivers for its economic growth even as its economy expands at a fast pace, JPMorgan said. Read More

Can India's new budget tackle growing job crisis?

Despite strong economic growth, India is not generating enough jobs for its young population. With a new budget on the table, experts say paying for training skilled workers and more manufacturing ... Read More

India's Modi focuses on jobs creation in first budget after winning polls

NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s newly formed government presented an annual budget to Parliament that raises spending to generate more jobs and spur economic growth, while aiming to ... Read More

To Understand India’s Economy, Look Beyond the Spectacular Growth Numbers

India’s GDP ... jobs there would make a huge difference to India’s economy—and Modi’s goals—given a projected population of 240 million in Uttar Pradesh. “Just the arithmetic weight is ... Read More

Jobs Growth Slows in April: What the Experts Are Saying

Jobs growth slowed markedly in April and wage pressures eased. That's just the sort of bad-news-is-good news labor ... Yet the weakness was not so weak to suggest that the labor market is rolling ... Read More

India’s president inaugurates newly elected parliament and sets out economic reforms as a key agenda

It faced criticism from the opposition during the election campaign for not creating enough jobs ... India surpassed the United Kingdom to become the world’s fifth-largest economy with a GDP ... Read More

Growth, inflation, jobs: Biden and Trump’s economic records compared

Both the Biden and Trump administrations oversaw periods of robust growth. Since Biden’s inauguration, gross domestic product (GDP ... the economy has added about 15.7 million jobs. Read More

May Jobs report could signal whether economy is weakening

Is the U.S. jobs market and broader economy finally ... interest rate cuts on hold. Right Wall Street is forecasting the first rate cut in September. Ye if employment growth drops below 150,000 ... Read More

India's GDP growth to slow modestly this fiscal year and next: Reuters poll

It's just going to surface more in the GDP numbers because the lift from statistical discrepancies is fading." India's economic growth in the three months through December was much higher than ... Read More

Jobs report today: Economy added 206,000 jobs in June, unemployment at 4.1%

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated that 195,000 jobs were added last month, so ... Wage growth generally has slowed as pandemic-related worker shortages have eased, but it’s still ... Read More

U.S. employers added a solid 206,000 jobs in June in a sign of continued economic strength

America’s employers delivered another healthy month of hiring in June, adding 206,000 jobs and once again displaying the U.S. economy ... employers might not be hiring so aggressively after ... Read More