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The World Bank warned this month that India like other South Asian nations was "not creating enough jobs to keep pace with its rapidly increasing working-age population". South Asia is failing "to fully capitalise on its demographic dividend", said Franziska Ohnsorge, the bank s regional chief economist, calling it a "missed opportunity".
At a run-down job centre in the suburbs of India s financial capital Mumbai, 27-year-old Mahesh Bhopale dreams of a well-paid government post just like millions of other young, unemployed graduates.
As the country’s general election nears, politicians face a sobering reality: the fastest-growing economy is struggling to create enough jobs for its educated youth.