Download or read book Employment Poverty and Rights in India written by Dayabati Roy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes. Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses unemployment in India and explains why the issues of employment and unemployment should be the appropriate prism to understand the status of wellbeing in India. The author provides a historical analysis of policy interventions on behalf of the colonial and postcolonial state with regard to the alleviation of unemployment and poverty in India and in West Bengal in particular. Arguing that, as long as poverty - either as a concept or as an empirical condition - remains as a technical issue to be managed by governmental technologies, the ‘poor’ will be held responsible for their own fate and the extent of poverty will continue to increase. The book contends that rural unemployment in India is not just an economic issue but a political process that has consistently been shaped by various socio-economic, political and cultural factors since the colonial period. The analysis which depends mainly on ethnography extends to the implementation of the ‘New Rights Agenda’, such as the MGNREGA, at the rural margin. Challenging the dominant approach to poverty, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of South Asian studies, Indian Political Economy, contemporary political theories, poverty studies, neo-liberalism, sociology and social anthropology as well as development studies.

Download or read book Human Rights And Poverty In India Theoretical Issues And Empirical Evidences in 5 Volumes written by S.N. Chaudhary and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 94 Papers In This Set Of Five Volumes, Presented At An International Conference, Organised By Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Analyse The Interface Between Human Rights And Poverty, With Particular Reference To India. Dealing With Conceptual Theoretical And Philosophical Dimensions Of Poverty And Human Rights, They Address A Wide Range Of Issues Pertaining To The Situation Of Human Rights And Poverty Among Different Social Groups In Different States Of The Country. The Role Of National Human Rights Commission And Ngos In The Protection Of Human Rights And In Eradication Of Poverty Has Also Been Analysed.

Download or read book Poverty Inequality and Unemployment in India written by Kedar Nath Prasad and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty and Unemployment in India written by Pravin M. Visaria and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Human Rights and Poverty in India written by Shyam Nandan Chaudhary and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the International Conference on Human Rights and Poverty, held at Bhopal during 2-5 October 2001.

Download or read book The Working Poor in India written by K. Sundaram and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Right to Work written by Puja Dutta and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a justiciable 'right to work' by promising up to 100 days of employment per year to all rural households whose adult members want unskilled manual work on public works projects at the stipulated minimum wage. Are the conditions stipulated by the Act met in practice, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)? What impact on poverty do the earnings from the scheme have? Does the scheme meet its potential? How can it do better? Right to Work? Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar studies the MGNREGS's impact across India, then focuses on Bihar, the country's third largest and one of its poorest states. It shows that although the scheme has the potential to substantially reduce poverty through extra earnings for poor families, that potential is not realized in practice. Workers are not getting all the work they want, nor are they getting the full wages due. The intended recipients' awareness of how to obtain work is low. In a controlled experiment, a specially designed fictional movie was used to show how knowledge of rights and processes can be enhanced. Although the movie effectively raised awareness and improved public perceptions of the scheme, it had little effect on actions such as seeking employment when needed. Supplyside constraints in responding to demand for work must also be addressed. A number of specific constraints to work provision are identified, including poor implementation capacity, weak financial management, and inadequate monitoring systems. Addressing these constraints would allow this major antipoverty program to come much closer to reaching its potential.

Download or read book Rural Non agricultural Employment in India written by R. R. Biradar and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book India written by Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book India s Employment Programmes for the Alleviation of Poverty written by Guy Templer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme written by Klaus Deininger and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realized thus has important policy implications. We use a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short- and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of NREGS. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase consumption (protein and energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more nonfinancial assets in the medium term. Direct benefits exceed program-related transfers and are most pronounced for scheduled castes and tribes and households supplying casual labor. Asset creation via program-induced land improvements is consistent with a medium-term increase in assets by nonparticipants and increases in wage income in excess of program cost.

Download or read book Understanding Development written by Swapnendu Banerjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses topical development issues in India, ranging from land acquisition, poverty alleviation programs, labor market issues, the public-private partnership (PPP) model and fiscal federalism. It offers an Indian perspective on the dynamics of economic development and the impact the country’s legal and public policies have on it. Economic development is a dynamic concept – old problems are solved, while at the same time new issues come to the fore. The emergence of these issues is unique to the development experience of an economy. The book includes sixteen recent contributions and is divided into four sections: law and contract; trade and foreign aid; issues in public economics; and the social sector and poverty alleviation. The chapters reflect on a number of development issues which were of concern for India in the recent past and will be important in her future development initiatives such as land acquisition, agricultural productivity, employment, protection of intellectual property rights, corruption, public-private partnership, regional development, poverty alleviations programs like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the training of self-help group members, health and education of women, to name a few. The book is a valuable reference resource for policy practitioners and researchers working on the economics of development with special focus on developing economies.

Download or read book Job Creation and Poverty Reduction in India written by Sadiq Ahmed and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid growth since 1980 has transformed India the 50th ranked economy in nominal US dollars to the 12th largest in the world in 2003. When income is measured with regard to purchasing power parity, the Indian economy occupies fourth place, after the United States, Japan, and China. Along with growing incomes, India’s increasingly outward orientation and the growing optimism about its economy has led to a surge in international investors interest. At the same time evidence suggests that income inequality is rising and the gap in average per capita income between the rich and poor states is growing. This book of collected articles provides an in-depth treatment of growth and employment issues in India. It reviews India’s long-term growth experience, emerging constraints and challenges, and the way forward for sustaining rapid growth along with more and better employment. Specifically, the book identifies ways in which the investment climate can be further improved to raise productivity and reduce the cost of doing business, thereby promoting domestic and foreign private investment. It looks at the growth and productivity challenges in agriculture and suggests policies that will help raise farm productivity and incomes. Higher farm productivity and incomes along with more and better non-farm jobs will reduce poverty at a faster pace than in the recent past. It explains the reason for the low overall employment elasticity of past growth and why there has been limited expansion of good jobs, and concludes by suggesting reform option for increasing employment.

Download or read book Economic Reforms Unemployment and Poverty written by Meenu Agrawal and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and unemployment are the two most formidable problems of the Indian economy. Developing employment opportunities has been an important objective of development planning in India. Though employment has increased over the years, growth in the population and the labor force has aggravated the unemployment problem year after year. The achievement of an employment-for-all objective is nowhere in sight. Due to lack of employment opportunities, millions of people still live below the poverty line. More distressingly, there is no hope of the two formidable problems of poverty and unemployment being solved in the near future. India's tenth Five Year Plan (2002-07) document has recognized that the unemployment problem would be aggravated, much less mitigated, during the Plan period and thereafter. The Indian economy took a new direction when the government announced its new industrial policy in the Parliament in July 1991. Since then, the economic reforms process has encompassed all areas of the economy. The wide-ranging reforms, initiated and implemented since 1991, have induced greater efficiency and competitiveness in all spheres of economic activity. How these reforms have impacted on the growth pattern, in terms of employment generation and reduction in poverty, is a matter of intense debate among economists and social scientists. This book examines these concerns, contributing to the existing and growing body of literature on various aspects of economic reforms in India.

Download or read book Poverty in India written by Barbara Harriss-White and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a workshop held at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford in October 1987.

Download or read book Women Children And Poverty written by M. Lakshmi Narasaiah and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Rural Poverty in India, The Persistence of Indian Poverty and its Alleviation, The Dynamics of Rural Poverty in India, Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Overcoming the Poverty in India and the Lessons Learned, Rural Poverty in India and Development as a Policy Challenge, Peace and Poverty, After the Microcredit Summit, Link Between Disability and Poverty, Towards a New Policy on Poverty Reduction, Women and Poverty, Empowerment for Women? The Gap Between Theory and Practice, Women in Politics, Women in Authority, Promotion of Women, Lightening the Load for Women, Equal Opportunities for Women in the Community, Fighting for Equality on All Fronts, Population Growth and Women s Role in India, Stop Child Labour, Child Labour Targeting the Intolerable, Child Labour in Weaving Industry, The Indian Economy and the Cattle Wealth, Water Problem in South India, Cheap Transport for India s Millions, Population Growth and Jobs, Population Growth and Income, Population Growth and Housing, Population Growth and Grain Production.

Download or read book Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Evidence from Andhra Pradesh written by Klaus Deininger and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: