{"id":228132,"date":"2026-01-11T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228132\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:41:12","slug":"exclusive-services-not-factories-will-employ-next-gen-workforce-raghuram-rajan-explains-indias-job-puzzle-key-takeaways-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228132\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | Services, not factories, will employ next gen workforce; Raghuram Rajan explains India\u2019s job puzzle &#8211; Key Takeaways &#8211; Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etnownews.com\/topic\/raghuram-rajan-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Raghuram Rajan Interview<\/a>: Is manufacturing enough to absorb India\u2019s massive youth workforce? In an exclusive conversation with ET Now, former RBI Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etnownews.com\/topic\/raghuram-rajan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Raghuram Rajan<\/a> underlined a services-led growth model, one that focuses on moderate-skilled jobs like construction, plumbing, healthcare support and AI-enabled services. While manufacturing still has a role, global protectionism and China\u2019s scale make it harder. The future may lie in embracing AI and upgrading skills to create jobs at scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raghuram Rajan Interview: Is manufacturing enough to absorb India\u2019s massive youth workforce? In an exclusive conversation with ET&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[363,138,219,33926,8673,136034,136038,111,139,69,136036,136035,136037],"class_list":["post-228132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-economy-news","tag-et-now","tag-et-now-exclusive","tag-india-service-sector","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-raghuram-rajan","tag-raghuram-rajan-interview","tag-raghuram-rajan-latest-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}