A person working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MNREGA scheme (Image by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock)
We’ve all heard of jobless growth. It now turns out that, in the period July 2019 to June 2020, a period which contained two quarters which were affected by the lockdown, a period which saw year-on-year GDP growth fall in every succeeding quarter, culminating in GDP shrinking by 24.4 per cent in the April-June 2020 quarter, the nation’s unemployment rate actually fell. In other words, instead of the usual economic growth without jobs, we have had jobs without economic...