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The Future of India Foundation is a think and do tank devoted to making the world's largest democracy work for the world's largest youth population
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Who is middle class in India, and why do they feel squeezed? (opens the original)
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This piece is part of a series on the promise of post-liberalisation India: that a growing economy would give each generation better work than the last, and that a college degree followed by a salaried job was the way to get there. The first piece traces that route and shows it narrowing. The second follows how the economy’s shape has changed since the early 1990s, and finds that most work in the growing sectors is casual or self-employed, and that the two larges
Release: Andhra Handbook of Youth Opportunity (opens the original)
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The uneven landscape of graduate unemployment across Indian states (opens the original)
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Where a graduate lives shapes both the chance of finding work and the kind of work they find. Visit youthpower.in for complete details of your own state, comparisons and more College enrolment varies widely across states.30.0% higher education enrolments for every 100 people aged 18–23 nationally.College enrolment ranges from 17.7 per 100 people aged 18–23 in Bihar to 72.3 in Puducherry. The median across the 31 states and UTs is 30.8; the national ratio is 30.0.Widening access to education and
Rajasthan youth eager to work, but 39% of working youth in unpaid work (opens the original)
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How the economy's shape changed (opens the original)
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The first piece described how the promise of better jobs through college education is starting to fray. This column unpacks the sectoral shift over the last 30 years and the impact on job quality and pay.---Agriculture lost 12 points of the economy. Manufacturing lost 3.Between 1993-94 and 2023-24, agriculture lost almost 11.7 points of the economy, falling from 29% to 18%. Instead of absorbing people leaving the fields, manufacturing too lost share, going from 17% to 14%.Six sectors gained. Pro
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