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    The mystery of the falling unemployment rate in the midst of a pandemic

    What exactly is the point of counting a person as employed if he has worked for just an hour in the preceding week?

    Manas Chakravarty
    August 03, 2021 / 10:39 IST
    The mystery of the falling unemployment rate in the midst of a pandemic

    A person working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MNREGA scheme (Image by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock)

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