The pandemic has decimated livelihoods in urban India and created a new underclass of workers who are being pushed into poverty. A CEP report by Shania Bhalotia, Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli calls for a national work guarantee to prevent mass long-term unemployment.

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2 November 2020     Paper Number CEPCP587

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