Entrepreneurship and Jobs in India

India needs more jobs than it is creating. Without enough job creation, its demographic dividend—adding a million people to the workforce every month—will become a disaster. One possible source of job creation is entrepreneurship. Recently, Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O’Connell (GKO) have been systematically exploring this hypothesis for India, in several research articles. What do we learn from their work?

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India's National Manufacturing Policy

India’s new National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) is just around the corner. Newspaper reports have provided some glimpses of the thrust of policy changes, with stated goals of creating 100 million jobs and increasing the manufacturing sector share of GDPhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif from 16% to 25% by 2025. Several innovative proposals have surfaced. One is to provide capital gains tax exemptions to small-scale enterprises, allowing them to raise equity by selling inherited land. Another is to create joint sinking funds in specified manufacturing zones, allowing speedier resolution of payments to labour that loses jobs. Much has been made of greater flexibility for environmental clearances. Unfortunately, this is probably going to result in greater social costs, and may not be the main culprit in constraining manufacturing growth, despite the recent attention given to this issue.

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