Employment generation initiatives like food-for-work programme seem to have had a positive impact. The fifth Economic Census report, released on Thursday, said there has been a decent increase of 2.78% in the rate of employment generation in the country during 1998-2005, as compared to the rate of 1.75% during 1990-98. Most significantly, even as the government is studying the implications of the report by the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER) on the