According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India should focus on investing heavily in education and health to ensure that its growing, young population is adequately employed
In India, 15 million people being added to the labour force every year
If India really wants to benefit from this population adding to the labour force, it has to invest big time in both education and health
The labour force needs to have the right skills, competing with AI and other such challenges
Growth in India was led by public investment and private consumption.
While public capex spending (for example infrastructure) had had a “very beneficial” impact on growth, the issue was with private investment which is on the weaker side
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