What should be the top priorities of India to remove poverty in the country?
I am not an expert on the Indian economy. However, looking from the perspective of an outsider, I would stress that a tightening jobs market is a hugely powerful engine for poverty reduction. In turn, the key engine for jobs growth is urban. So I would focus on trying to unblock whatever might be constraining the expansion of employment in urban services and manufacturing. Offshoring currently happens to China and India on cost considerations. Do you see this as a key ingredient in poverty reduction? `Offshoring’ is just a politically slanted word for describing trade in services. Like other job-intensive exports, it enables ordinary people at both ends of the transaction to gain. Indians gain from the job opportunities and consumers such as myself gain from lower prices and better service. Potentially, it is a key ingredient of poverty reduction in those societies with few other options. I would like to see the impoverished landlocked countries exporting these services. For example, i
