'Must provide jobs to those not well-educated to go beyond freebies'

Harvard Business School professor Christian Ketels says it isn't useful to think of manufacturing versus services jobs; a range of sectors need to be mobilised for job creation

The Institute for Competitiveness recently came out with a report titled Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100. The report, authored by Harvard Business School professors Michael E Porter and Christian Ketels, and Institute chair Amit Kapoor suggested ways to enhance competitiveness by breaking silos to enable India to become at least an upper-middle-income economy by 2047. Christian Ketels tells Indivjal Dhasmana about the need for a 25-year timeframe, the uselessness of creating a manufacturing-services sector dichotomy for job generation, and looking beyond freebies in the long run. Edited excerpts:

Q. John Maynard Keynes had said before the great depression, “in the long