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UPSC 2013: To obtain full benefits of demographic dividend, what should India do?
(a)Promoting skill development
(b)Introducing more social-security schemes
(c)Reducing infant mortality rate
(d)Privatization of higher education
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (a) Promoting skill development
A demographic dividend converts a large working-age cohort into higher growth only if the labour force is productively employed; international and Indian policy analyses emphasise large-scale skill development and education as the essential prerequisite, whereas merely adding social-security schemes, lowering infant mortality, or privatising higher education does not directly create employable skills. ([worldbank.org](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/02/28/india-accelerated-reforms-needed-to-speed-up-growth-and-achieve-high-income-status-by-2047?utm_source=openai))
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This question was asked in UPSC CSE Prelims 2013, GS Paper 1, as Question 78. It falls under Indian Economy > Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes.
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