India's unique advantage of a large young population is widely recognised. The potential advantage of its demographic dividend for the country and the youth can be reaped provided it looks into its policies and programmes on education, health, livelihood and citizenship, with a view to empower its young population. Some of the leading educators, civil society leaders and policy advisors look into these aspects and provide insightful suggestions. The book is enriched by four case studies from Punjab, Rajsthan, Kerala and Odisha, focussing on the specific problems of the youth in these states and the approaches to resolve them. Universities and institutions teaching development economics, social relationship and political empowerment of youth will find the book very useful.
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978-93-327-0418-3 (9789332704183)
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Vijay Shankar Vyas is the Chairman of the Ajit Foundation, an institution working for last two decades for empowering youth. He has a PhD in economics and has taught at Bombay University, Sardar Patel University and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was awarded DLitt (honoris causa) by Maharana Pratap University of Agricultural Sciences, Udaipur. He was Director of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmeda-bad and Chairman, Governing Board of the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur. He has been Senior Advisor in the World Bank, Member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister, Member of the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India and Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board of Rajasthan. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2006 by the President of India.
Shreekant Sambrani is an engineer (Indian Institute of Techno-logy, Bombay/Northwestern University) and an economist (Cornell University). He is a management researcher/adviser. He was earlier Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Chief of the Research Bureau, The Economic Times and Founder-Director, Institute of Rural Management, Anand. He has advised numerous private, co-operative, government and international agencies on policy and strategy issues. He also writes on current events of social, political and economic significance.
