Realising the Demographic Dividend

Policies to Achieve Inclusive Growth in India
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-09172-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

This book discusses policies to achieve inclusive growth in India and realise the demographic dividend, which will end by 2040 when India will become an aging society. India is the world's fastest growing large economy, but jobs are not growing equally rapidly. The size of India's youth workforce is worrying, and the largely informal workforce is not covered by social insurance. Universal elementary education, despite the Right to Education Act 2009, is yet to be achieved. Health outcomes have improved only slowly over the years. Furthermore, sanitation still remains a very serious problem. As an economist and former policy-maker, the author discusses specific policies to address these problems, well beyond what is currently being practised. The book also deals with the governance issues that need to be addressed before inclusive growth can be attained.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mehrotra, Santosh

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables and figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Growth, Employment and Inclusion: 1. Capability-centred approach to inclusive growth: theoretical framework and empirical reality; 2. Sustaining economic growth; 3. Ensuring higher agricultural growth and the revival of rural India; 4. Addressing the employment-related paradoxes of economic growth; 5. Public finance: increasing fiscal capacity; 6. Skill development: finding new financing mechanisms to take vocational education and training to scale; 7. A common platform for skill development: implementing the national skills qualification framework; Part II. Human Capital Formation: 8. Addressing capability deprivation of women for inclusive growth; 9. From the right to education to the right to learning; 10. Food security, nutrition and health: policy dilemmas and interlinked challenges; 11. Redesigning sanitation programmes to make India free from open defaecation; Part III. Building a System of Social Protection: 12. Minimising leakages in welfare programmes: how to identify the poor correctly?; 13. Needed a social insurance system for unorganised workers below the poverty line; 14. Introducing cash transfers: a proposal for a minimum income guarantee and some CCTs; Part IV. Governance: 15. Two pre-requisites for optimum governance: deep fiscal decentralisation and the bureaucracy's ability to learn; 16. Addressing left-wing extremism: encourage peace to secure development – or the other way around?; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mehrotra, Santosh
Santosh Mehrotra is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was earlier Director General of the National Institute for Labour Economics Research, the only research institute of the Planning Commission of India. Mehrotra also headed the Rural Development Division and then the Development Policy Division of the Commission. He was the team leader of the India Human Development Report 2011 and was the chief economist of the Human Development Report, New York. Professor Mehrotra's research has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Portuguese.