Human Capital Potential of India's Future Workforce

Ali Mehdi and Divya Chaudhry

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Abstract: This paper discusses India’s demographic dynamics and argues that policymakers have the widest window of opportunity with that segment of population which is poised to enter the workforce between 2030 and 2050 – those in their infancy today and the following decades. They should realize that our employability crisis (as well as to some degree, inequality in the economic and human development sphere) has its roots, inter alia, in the country’s grossly inadequate, inefficient and inequitable early health and education systems.

Keywords: Early human capital formation; skill development; demographic dividend; knowledge economy; labour force; employability; health; education systems; economic; human development; inequality; dynamics; workforce; population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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