‘The Youth Bulge’: India Struggles to Employ an Exploding Population

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Close to a million youths reach working age every month in India. How to employ them could define the country’s success in the coming years

As Indians elect a government, the country’s economy faces a challenge that could define its global success in the years aheadSAHARANPUR, India—Amid the cacophony of India’s general election, now in full swing as up to 900 million people vote over five weeks, one note rings through: the shortage of jobs for the country’s exploding youth population.

The high hopes Prime Minister Narendra Modi sparked in the 2014 election when he promised “achhe din,” or good times, are now colliding with economic distress in rural areas. Around this northern Indian city and in similar regions across the country, legions of young Indians struggle to survive in the...

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