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India might finally get jobs data that economists can use
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Mumbai
IN India, unemployment data are more useful to historians than economists.
While China is joining the US and Brazil in moving towards monthly figures to take the pulse of their economies, the latest jobs numbers in India are at least a year old. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is now weighing a proposal to start work on a quarterly report.
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