FDI’s up, so is GDP. And yet the demographic dividend lies untapped. Here’s why.
Blame it on global or domestic scenario, but the Modi government’s promise of ending a decade of jobless growth during the UPA regime is yet to deliver. This is despite a higher economic growth and over 50 per cent rise in FDI inflow in the last two years.
“To break away from the joblessness, we need a structural shift in the sources of growth, but there is no such evidence,” says Mahesh Vyas, CEO and MD of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), which tracks unemployment on a monthly basis. “At the same time, unemployment is very high at 9.8 per cent in August as against 8.65 per cent in July and 8.72 per cent in January this year. Going by evidence, we have not moved away from the jobless growth seen in the UPA years. If growth is happening, it is not generating employment.”
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