Basole, Amit  <br/><br/>
Labour, livelihoods, and employment in the 2021–22 union budget 

 - Economic & Political Weekly   
 - 56(9), Feb 27, 2021: p.43-47 
<br/><br/> Coming in the midst of the immense damage inflicted on the Indian economy by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021–22 Union Budget needed to perform the unenviable task of compensating households for massive livelihood losses as well as stimulating economic growth while maintaining some fiscal discipline. As it turned out, the government chose to focus on the second and third goals and largely ignored the first. – Reproduced