"While rates are revised basis the CPI-Agricultural Workers, the increase is not enough, said Rajendran Narayanan, professor at the School of Arts and Sciences at the Azim Premji University. "
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"Maintaining the food subsidies, along with other social spending could help boost consumption demand, said Amit Basole, head of the Centre for Sustainable Employment at the Azim Premji University."
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"The restoration of licences for a few, such as Missionaries of Charity, Ramakrishna Mission, JNU, Azim Premji Foundation, have confounded matters further."
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"The more prominent ones, such as Missionaries of Charity, Ramakrishna Mission, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Oxfam India, IIT-Delhi, India Islamic Cultural Centre, Shri Saibaba Sansthan, Azim Premji Foundation, Biocon Foundation, made the headlines and, thereafter, some even had their registrations renewed."
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"The State of Working India 2021 report by the Azim Premji University also showed that poorer households borrowed a much higher multiple of their pre-pandemic income."
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"Amit Basole, who heads the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University, said that demand in the economy is still low and incomes have not gone back to pre-pandemic levels. "
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"Researchers at Azim Premji University found the virus pushed an additional 230 millionpeople - more than the entire population of Brazil - below the poverty line, with worrying increases in malnutrition and hunger."
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"Amit Basole, who heads the Centre For Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University, said while this year isn't as bad as last year, there's still need for support. "
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"Which means we would be looking at long-lasting reductions [in the size of the middle class]," Basole of Azim Premji University told IndiaSpend."
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"The problem is there is not enough data," Amit Basole, associate professor of economics at Azim Premji University, told IndiaSpend. "
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"A year into the pandemic, 230 million Indians slipped below the national minimum wage threshold, according to a report by Azim Premji University."
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"A staggering 99.7% of India's MSMEs are in the unorganised sector, meaning they employ fewer than 10 workers; and about two-thirds of these are not registered, according to a paper by economists Santosh Mehrotra and Tuhinsubhra Giri published by the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University in December 2019. "
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"At least 200 million Indians have regressed to earning less than the $5 minimum daily wage, Bangalore-based Azim Premji University estimates, while the middle class shrank by 32 million in 2020, according to the Pew Research Institute."
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"As India's economy shrunk by 7.3% last year, the daily average wage for about 230 million Indians - enough to make the world's fifth-largest nation - dropped below the 375-rupee ($5) threshold, according to a study by the Azim Premji University in Bangalore. "
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"If last year was harrowing, it's tough to get a true sense of the extent of the crisis this year," said Amit Basole, director of the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University and co-author of the State of Working India report. "
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"As India's economy shrunk by 7.3% last year, the daily averagewage for about 230 million Indians - enough to make the world's fifth-largest nation - dropped below the 375-rupee ($5) threshold, according to a study by the Azim Premji University in Bangalore. "
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"More than 200 million have gone back to earning less than minimum wage, or $5, a day, the Bangalore-based Azim Premji University calculates. "
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"There are research institutions, like the Centre for Sustainable Employment of Azim Premji University that brings out the annual State of the Working India Reports using data from a variety of surveys, that are critically examining employment issues with academic rigour."
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"Since then, Premji has transferred 67% of Wipro's economic ownership to the Azim Premji Endowment Fund."
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"The proposal has come from ateam of economists at the Bangalore-based Azim Premji University. "
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"While there's no data on how many Indians have been pushed to financial ruin by medical debt, researchers at Azim Premji University found that the virus erased decades of gains by pushing an additional 230 million -more than the entire population of Pakistan -into poverty last year. "
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"Unfortunately, its lessons have not been learnt," Rajendran Narayanan, economist, Azim Premji University told IndiaSpend, recalling the widespread distress witnessed due to the national lockdown. "
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"When more than 5% of gross domestic product movesin one year from being labor's share of income to additional corporate profit, asa recent study by Bangalore-based Azim Premji University has shown,the equitymarketacquiresnew legs. "
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"Rajendran Narayan, assistant professor at Azim Premji University, who is also co-founder of the SWAN Network, said the government should start working on alternatives amid high distress."
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"The monthly per capita income of an average four-member household was Rs 4,979 in October 2020, seven months after the Covid-19 nationwide lockdown was imposed--a 17% decrease from the level of Rs 5,989 in January 2020, per Azim Premji University's State of Working Report India 2021, published this month. "
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"In April and May 2020, the poorest 20% of households lost their entire incomes, said the State of Working India report for 2021 by the Azim Premji University, published on Wednesday. "
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"The first wave of the Covid-19 crisis pushed nearly 23 crore Indians into poverty, estimates a study by the Azim Premji University. "
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"About 91% of rural and 67% of urban households with ration cards reported receiving at least some food via the public distribution system, according to a survey by the Centre of Sustainable Employment at the Azim Premji University. "
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"The Centre for Sustainable Employment at the Azim Premji University, analysed data available from the Consumer Pyramids Household Survey by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, and came away with the finding that the proportion of self-employed rose to 53% in September-December 2020 from 50% in September-December 2019."
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"As of December 2020, the worker participation rate for women was at 85% of its pre-pandemic level in urban areas and at 78% in rural areas, according to the analysis of the Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy or CMIE's Consumer Pyramids Household Survey analysed by researchers at the Azim Premji University. "
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"The proposed increase in capital expenditure is coming at the expense of non-capital expenditure, keeping aggregate spending the same, Amit Basole, who teaches at the privately run Azim Premji University, said. "
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"You can listen to a conversation with researchers at the Azim Premji University here and read suggested policy prescriptions here."
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"Jayadev, professor of economics at Azim Premji University, says that India's decades-long failure in providing access to quality health services for a substantial proportion of the population has come home to roost this year."
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"The uptick isn't entirely unexpected, said Rosa Abraham, senior research fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University. "
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"While the scheme was designed to be demand driven, it works to the contrary, said Rajendran Narayanan, assistant professor at Azim Premji University. "
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"founder Azim Premji donated Rs 22 crore a day or Rs 7,904 crore in a year to emerge as the most generous Indian in FY20 topping the list of philanthropy in the country."
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"While some migrants are returning to urban areas, many have also stayed back in search of work, continuing to drive the spike in demand for work, said Rajendran Narayan, assistant professor at the Azim Premji University. "
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"An imaginative list of possible public works in urban areas is available in a recent proposal for urban employment guarantee prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University."
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