Only credible leaders can skill the youth

India produces around 1,600 films annually, which gross $2 billion on 2.6 billion tickets sold. Other revenues are additional.

Skilling is a public good but with strong private good characteristics.

Gajendra Chauhan President of FTII should have proved his support amongst the agitating students via a referendum like PM Tsipras did in Greece

The elephant in the room is getting the maximum bang for the buck. Spend on skilling should result in people getting employment.

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Skills Development: putting the cart before the horse?

(photo credit: the hindu.com) It is curious that we learn nothing from experience. The World Bank, sundry bilateral and multilateral donors spent 10% of their funds during the 1990’s on developing generalized skills (also known loosely as capacity development) in developing countries before junking the program, because results were difficult to attribute to inputs and […]

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