Demographic Dividend and Employment : Policy Measures and Challenges

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Demographic dividend and the challenge of improving employability/Sudhakar Panda. 2. Rural demographic dividend: challenges and initiatives a case study of district Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh/Prashant Agarwal. 3. Harnessing the demographic dividend : Industry academia convergence for enhanced employability/Sunita Gupta and A.C. Gupta. 4. A challenge to save the demographic dividend by mitigating the road accidents/G.P. Kapoor and N.S. Bisht. 5. Demographic dividend and employment trends/P. Anbalagan. 6. Harnessing demographic dividend of youth through vocational education in J & K: evidence and policy implications/Falendra Kumar Sudan. 7. Human resource and employable skill development/Arindam Ghosh and Agradoot Bhaduri. 8. Demographic dividend and employment challenges before India/R.Y. Mahore. 9. Demographic dividend: an analysis of opportunities and challenges for India/Aparna Shukla and Priti Atrey. 10. Demographic dividend in India: opportunities challenges and policy measures/M.M. Goel. 11. Demographic dividend and the challenge of improving employability/S.T. Warade, R.B. Bhandwalkar and R.R. Gawhale. Index.

This book presents selected papers on "Demographic Dividend and Employment: Policy Measures and Challenges", contributed at the 95th annual conference of the Indian Economic Association in 2012.

Collectively they cover a wide range of recent issues and diverse aspects related to demographic changes, its dividend and challenges and policy measures could move these changes in appropriate direction for rapid development process. In particular, the book contains studies on demographic issues, changes, challenges and the policy measures they can turn its dividend in favour of Indian development process and its impact on different sectors of the economy under the changing scenario of the world. The book brings a unique ringside perspective to the current issues of demographic aspects.

The eleven papers included in the book are contributed by economists, academicians and scholars at different stages of their working career and belonging to different universities, colleges and policy institutes.

The book is expected to be of special interest to those academicians, researchers and the general readers who are keen to know the current changes and challenges in demographic features and development. It would also be useful to the policymakers for understanding the local and global requirements and effective implementation of changes in them.