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How India is wasting its potential demographic dividend #IndiaNEWS
Once considered a formidable asset, has India’s demographic bulge turned toxic due to the country’s lost economic decade?For the better part of the past decade, India was touted as the next big economic growth story after China because of its relatively younger population. “Demographic dividend� – the potential resulting from a country’s working-age population being larger than its non-working-age population – was the key phrase.Come 2022, the median age in India will be 28, well below 37 in China and the US.The huge surplus of working-age people should have given the country a competitive edge with cheap labour. Instead, there has been an unemployment crisis.Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a slew of factors, from a burgeoning bad-loans problem to a lack of social reforms to knee-jerk policy reactions, have placed the potential of youth in a chokehold.In the absence of conducive economic, social and political conditions, India risks squandering its advantage by “creating a young and angry population, and with it conditions for social unrest and economic disaster�, investment bank Espirito Santo warned back in 2013. The worrying trend has been exacerbated, and the demographic dividend has become more of a demographic drag, or worse, a demographic demon.High unemployment ratesSince India’s stellar growth got derailed by the 2008 recession, it has struggled to...Read more

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