IMPACT OF FISCAL POLICY IN RESOLVING UNEMPLOYMENT IN INDIA
Abstract Through this assignment of mine, some impacts of fiscal policy on unemployment in India have been explained. Unemployment is now one of the major macroeconomic concerns of the country. Government is trying its best to solve this issue but don’t seem to find the right remedy. It has tried both fiscal and monetary policies for this concern among which I would like to look upon the impact of fiscal policies only here in this assignment. After all, I would like to relate this issue with the popular IS-LM framework in both supporting and contradicting ways. We will have to remember one important and a very basic point. Fiscal policy (cutting down taxes/ increasing spending) can lead to increase in aggregate demand (AD) and rise in real GDP. Thus the economic growth will lead to increase the demand for workers. This leads to rise in employment and reduces unemployment. This basic idea gives us an insight that the fiscal policy has a positive impact on solving unemployment. ...