Jobs are growing in rural areas

There have been some important positive developments since 2004-05 on employment, which have not been well recognised in the financial papers. First, non-farm sectors drove employment. While such jobs rose by 37.5 million between 1999-2000 and 2004-05 - an increase of 7.5 million new jobs in industry and services per year - they increased by 52 million between 2004-05 and 2011-12 - 7.5 million per annum again.

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