An Employment-centred Perspective of Development

Given an observed trade-off between maximising GDP growth and maximising employment growth, the paper starts by posing the question: growth of what? Based on a review of global and Indian experience in these dimensions of development, the paper proposes a three-pillar strategy of employment centered development. First, short run policy incentives to accelerate growth of labor-intensive sectors outside agriculture. Second, University Technical College based skilling program at scale and reform of higher education over the medium term to prepare India’s appropriately high skilled workforce for the future. Third, structural changes to raise labor productivity in an ecologically sustainable way in an employment-intensive agricultural sector

Incentive · Perspective (graphical · Productivity · Scale (ratio · Sustainable development · Workforce · Workforce development · Employee Welfare and Language Studies · Indian Economic and Social Development · Unemployment and Economic Growth