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Do you think that ‘demonetization’ has accelerated the economic growth in India ? How do you understand the informalization of labour, underemployment and gender discrimination in this context?

  • UPSC 2019
  • Visions of Social Change in India

On 8 November 2016 the state withdrew 86% of currency by value overnight. Sociologically it is a model case of what Max Weber called formal rationality — a calculable administrative instrument — producing substantively irrational outcomes for those furthest from the formal economy. It did not accelerate growth; it deepened informality, underemployment and gender disadvantage.

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  • Did it accelerate growth? No
  • Informalisation of labour
  • Underemployment
  • Gender discrimination
  • Conclusion

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