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Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents opportunities to complement human intelligence and enhance the way of living and working. AI is poised to disrupt the human world with intelligent machines enabled of high-level cognitive processes like thinking, perceiving, learning, problem solving and decisio...
Since 2018, India’s working-age population (people between 15 and 64 years of age) has grown larger than its dependant population — children aged 14 or below as well as people above 65 years of age. This bulge in the working-age population is going to last till 2055. Prof. K. Nagaraj, retired Pr...
As per government data, only 4.69% of India’s workforce is formally skilled. An adequate availability of skilled workers is needed to propel the ‘Make in India’ mission. The ‘Skill India’ mission covering vocational trainings needs to be strengthened to push the population towards employab...
The emphasis on technical education in India, in the true sense, started in 2008. A lot of initiatives were taken by the central government. But the results were not as fruitful as expected. Then a committee led by Sarada Prasad (former director general of general employment and training in the mini...
Economists concerned with demography prefer to explain demographic transitions in four stages. In the early stage, while both birth rate and death rate are higher, population growth is low. In the next stage, death rate falls but no change in birth rate occur and this results in an increase in popul...
Data released by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs on September 18 highlighted that international migrants comprise 3.5% of the global population vis-Ã -vis 2.8% in 2000. With a migrant population of 17.5 million, India has topped in terms of international m...
An autistic child, Greta Thunberg, has shaken the world from its slumber. Even the trolling by the President of the most powerful nation could not deflect her from her conviction. Standing on the podium at the World Climate change convention in New York, she pointed out to the leaders of the world o...
Global think-tanks including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have been advocating that India is in the midst of a demographic transition and is likely to reap huge demographic dividends in the coming years.India is experiencing an increase in working-age population offering ...