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Santosh Mehrotra and M.K. Venu analyse what the numbers from the latest available employment data say.

Santosh Mehrotra and M.K. Venu analyse what the numbers from the latest available employment data say. Credit: The Wire

Santosh Mehrotra and M.K. Venu analyse what the numbers from the latest available employment data say.

Santosh Mehrotra is a human development economist and is currently Professor of Economics, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. M.K. Venu is one of the founding editors of The Wire.

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Author: M.K. Venu

M.K. Venu is a Founding Editor of The Wire. As an active economic and political writer, he has held leadership roles in newspapers such as The Economic Times, The Financial Express and The Hindu. He has written extensively on economic policy matters for over a quarter century after India opened up its economy in 1991. He wrote regular political economy columns on the edit pages of The Economic Times, Financial Express and Indian Express over the past two decades. He also hosted a regular political-economy discussion called ‘State of the Economy’ on the national public broadcast channel RSTV. He has also been invited by Parliamentary Committees to give his views on public policy matters. He is on Twitter @mkvenu1.