This book Policy Initiatives in Employment Challenges, compiled with many articles contributed by scholars and mostly have focused on the role of MUDRA, MGNREGA and skill training. This book elaborately narrates how these programmes are implemented to meet the challenges of unemployment prevailing both in formal and informal sectors of the country? Almost all themes examines how far unemployed has disturbed the ‘growth–employment balance’ in Indian economy and what policy-makers have done to make a balance between growth and employment through various initiatives. This book will behoof the learners and research scholars. Contents: Effects of Macroeconomic Policies on Labour Market in Employment Creation of Emerging Indian Economy; Globalisation and the Gender Wage Gap; Economic Status of Unorganized Women Construction Workers; Globalization and Labour Market; Employment Creation through MUDRA Yojana and MGNREGA in West Bengal; Gender Differentials in Human Development; Employment Challenges Under New Economic Reforms in India; Employment Challenges and Policies; Employment : Problems, Policies and Challenges in Informal Sector; Challenges of the Unorganised Retail Sector; Employment through Skill Training and Placement; Combating Youth Unemployment in India; MUDRA Yojana Initiative on Employment Creation; Sector-wise Diversification in Employment and GDP of the Indian Economy; Impact of MGNREGS in Chittoor District; Women Empowerment through Informal Sector; MGNREGA, Paid Work and Women Empowerment; Social Inclusion of Rural Women through MGNREGS; Poverty Alleviation in the Eleventh Plan; Changes in the Consumption Patterns in Rural Telangana; Ecotourism in Forest Covered Jalpaiguri.