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I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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