How To Fix The Jobs Crunch

How To Fix The Jobs Crunch

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By R Jagannathan

The only real solution to the jobs crisis, whether in India or abroad, is to direct tech innovation towards job enhancing sectors, and disincentivising job-replacing ones, observes R Jagannathan. One of the stated goals of India’s G20 presidency is to foreground ‘its belief in a human-centric approach to technology, and facilitate greater knowledge-sharing in priority areas like digital public infrastructure, financial inclusion, and tech-enabled development in sectors ranging from agriculture to education.’This is laudable, but the big elephant in the room that remains unacknowledged is the negative […]

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