Abstract
It has been a long journey from the ‘Population Problem’ to the ‘Demographic Dividend’ and from ‘Surplus Labor’ to ‘Skill Development’. Some of us have not changed the vision and always held that mouths are also born with hands and capabilities latent to be developed. But it would be naïve to pretend that the problematique is not severe any more. Dividends can become losses and there is nothing more frustrating than unrequited skills. The fact that planning has been abolished means that population studies are on the back burner.
Some of the material used in this Chapter is reproduced, with due acknowledgement, from the author’s papers published in Anvesak, Indian Journal of Quantitative Economics, Indian Journal of Human Development (‘The Poverty Debate in Perspective: Moving Forward with the Tendulkar Committee’, 2010, Vol. 4, No. 1), and from the Indian Statistical Institute and Bank Indonesia with permission from Dr. Iwan Aziz, of Cornell University and Adviser to Bank Indonesia.
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Notes
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Common man.
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Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, the ASEAN states, Mexico.
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Sweet and sour.
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The best man we had in the field, alas no more for those whom the Gods love go young.
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Loosely used to describe people, culture or products of Indian subcontinent.
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A phrase taken from a novel by Salman Rushdie of the same name, used to describe Indians since India gained independence on the midnight of August 14, 1947.
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Common man.
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NITI Aayog is a popularly known alias of National Institution for Transforming India.
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Other Backward Class (OBC) is an official classification recognized by the Government of India to classify castes which are socially or educationally or economically disadvantaged.
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Indigenous population present as ethnic groups and original inhabitants of regions in South Asia.
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Alagh, Y.K. (2018). Population, Demographics and Poverty. In: Economic Policy in a Liberalising Economy. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2817-6_2
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