CEA nudges private sector to hire more, says economic health pretty good
Chief economic advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday nudged the private corporate sector to hire more and find the “right balance between capital-intensive and labour-intensive growth”, underling that while profits of private listed companies, as a percentage of GDP, hit a 15-year high in March 2024, their wage cost increase dwindled.
Without a judicious balance between the share of corporations’ income making up their profits and that going to workers as wages, there won’t be adequate demand in the economy for companies’ own products to be bought, the CEA said. Sustained income growth bolsters both consumption and savings, which eventually spur economic expansion.
“In other words, not paying workers well or not hiring workers enough will end up being actually self-destructive or harmful for the corporate sector itself and for small enterprises,” Nageswaran said, stressing that even legendary economist Adam Smith had written The Theory of Moral Sentiments before his seminal work--The Wealth of Nations.
The CEA was speaking at Assocham’s Bharat@100 summit in the capital.
He said: “The most important ingredient of long term growth and consumption is to ensure employment income growth and, thus, spending power growth. Otherwise, it will become a mutually self-destructive cycle.”
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