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By Arul Louis, United Nations : India must focus as a priority on ensuring that more women work in the formal sector as it continues with labour reforms, according to Ken Kang, the deputy director in International Monetary Fund (IMF) Asia Pacific Department. While "in recent years India has made very impressive progress in reforms," he said that "looking ahead there are important policy priorities" and listed three among them. "One, is to continue improvements in product and labour market reforms with a focus on increasing formal female labour participation to improve...