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Recovery on thin ice as India finds itself in a crater on employment front

Economic recovery either stopped in the third quarter or it stopped showing up in recovery in employment

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The government has predicted that the economy would recover in the second half of the current fiscal year. Real GDP contracted by 15.7 per cent in the first half compared
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First Published: Jan 11 2021 | 11:59 PM IST

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