India After Liberalisation

A series on jobs in post-liberalisation India.

1. 1. The fraying promise of post-liberalisation India

   We made good jobs synonymous with college degrees, but degrees are delivering neither jobs nor better pay.

2. 2. How the economy's shape changed

   85% of India's workers are in sectors where the median pay is ₹15,000 a month or less. Growth did not create better jobs.

3. 3. The uneven landscape of graduate unemployment across Indian states

   Unemployment among young graduates is more than double the rate for young people as a whole. Explore how education, employment and pay vary across states.

4. 4. Who is middle class in India, and why do they feel squeezed?

   Only 6.6% of Indian workers earn a middle-class salary and the salary buys less than it once did.

5. 5. IT Sector Helped Build the Indian Middle Class. For Its Workers, It Is Starting to Sputter.

   Software exports have doubled since 2017-18. Since 2023-24, jobs, pay and labour's share of the value the sector adds have fallen.