Indian Youth: Future Hopes, Future Prospects

Indian Youth: Future Hopes, Future Prospects With dampening spirits over the “emerging economies”, including the diverse doldrums of four of the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, slowing growth in China, and South Africa – many eyes are fixed in India, which, in the words of the title of a recent article by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, “has a real chance to excel on growth”. This is all the more the case, some argue, as China is not only facing slower growth but an aging population. “China may have won the race”, as the more ebullient Indians pronounce, “but we will win the marathon”. India’s demographic dividend, it is believed, will now pay off.