Learning in crisis

When times were good and we were dreaming superlative economic dreams, we liked to brag about having the largest number of young people in the world. China may have built its roads and superfast railway tracks ahead of us, our omniscient mandarins liked to say, but we had the ‘population dividend’ since fifty per cent of Indians are younger than 25. But, now that times are bad and it looks as if it is only a short while before we return to that old ‘Hindu rate of growth’, our population dividend is beginning to look like just another Indian myth.

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