Only if the people have education, they have good health, they have infrastructure, they have roads to go to work, they have lights to study at night –only in those cases can you really get the benefit of a demographic dividend. In other words, if you don't really invest in the human capital, the same demographic dividend can be a demographic disaster,” says Nandan Nilekani, the the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys.
Imagining India: Nandan Nilekani
His book Imagining India asks big questions: How can India –which made such leaps in the past two decades –maintain its demographic advantage? How can democracy and education be promoted? How, in the midst of such growth, can the environment be protected for the next generations?
In his talk at TED, he explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress. Check out:
