Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force
LOOK AT Indian data and strange patterns start to emerge. Why, for example, do over 95% of industrial firms employ fewer than ten workers, and many others exactly 99? Why are garment factories two-thirds of the size, on average, of rivals in Bangladesh? And why is 42% of the manufacturing workforce contract labour, hired to perform specific, limited tasks?
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