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A worker places tea cups onto the tray of a robot waiter during a media preview at the Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad, India, November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Amit Dave
There could be an alternative way forward: technology advances can help poor countries create more employment. That’s the vision Natarajan Chandrasekaran, head of India’s giant Tata conglomerate, and Roopa Purushothaman, the group’s chief economist, lay out in “Bridgital Nation”. Despite its clunky title, the book tackles the central issue that will define Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s next five years in power.
The authors offer a refreshing perspective on the human problem which is otherwise mostly viewed through a developed-market lens. Artificial intelligence, they argue, can help India address a massive shortage of doctors, teachers, judges, and childcare workers by creating a new class of workers able to use technology to ease administrative burdens. That should free up senior professionals to focus on the job in hand.
An innovative fix is certainly needed. The book is crammed with heart-rending stories and statistics about the sorry state of India’s workforce: 18% of young people between the ages of 15 and 29 are unemployed, just 23% of working-age women actually work and participation rates are falling. Meanwhile 77% of India’s employed are stuck in the informal sector, one largely defined by low productivity and lack of social security.
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