India’s next big export – workers


Students in a marketing class at the Learnet Institute of Skills. India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labour shortages, like Germany and Japan. — Atul Loke/The New York Times

INDIA has a teeming population of able-bodied workers – tens of millions more than its employers can absorb.

Many developed countries face the opposite problem: more jobs than workers.

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