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  • Right to Work?

    Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar

    by Puja Dutta, Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle ...
    Series series Equity and development
    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 ... Read more

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  • Right to Work?

    Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar

    by Puja Dutta, Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle ...
    Series series Equity and development
    India's 2005 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a justiciable 'right to work' by promising up to 100 days of wage employment per year to all rural households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Work is provided in public works projects at the stipulated minimum wage. This study asks: Are the conditions stipulated by the Act met in practice? How much impact on ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Basic Income

    A Transformative Policy for India

    by Mr Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Prof. Guy Standing, Soumya Kapoor Mehta ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Microfinance in India - Bridging the divide

    by Harsh Goyal ...
    Microfinance has been defined as the provision of financial services to low-income population for whom traditional banking services are not accessible. Microfinance has proved as a reliable vehicle in alleviating poverty by providing credit facility especially in the rural and semi-urban areas. Microfinance has been described as ‘philanthropy through industry’ on account of its social dimension ... Read more

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  • Demonetisation and Black Money

    by C. Rammanohar Reddy ...
    On 8 November 2016, India took the dramatic and unprecedented step of demonetising its high denomination Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes in an effort to ‘fight black money, eliminate counterfeit notes and stop terror funding’. The decision has prompted fierce and widespread debate. While proponents and opponents have argued on specific aspects of the policy, a holistic view has been absent from ... Read more

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  • Overdraft

    Saving the Indian Saver

    by Urjit Patel ...
    All of us love to spend. But before we can do that, we have to have earned or saved some money. Only sovereigns don't have to: they can print money, or borrow; in our country, where they own banks, they can use our deposits to lend and splurge for goals that may not always be economic in nature. Many rulers have succumbed to the temptation, with dire results - inflation, debased currency, payments ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Right to Education in India

    Resources, institutions and public policy

    Edited by Praveen Jha, P. Geetha Rani ...
    This is one of the first volumes to comprehensively discuss resource constraints and institutional challenges in realizing the Fundamental Right to Education (RTE) in India. It looks at various aspects of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the primary vehicle to implement RTE and a flagship programme to universalize elementary education in the country. The book presents a comparative perspective ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services

    The Life-Cycle Cost Approach to Planning and Management

    by Livelihoods & Natural Resource Managment Institute, International Water & Sanitation Centre, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Watershed Support Services & Activities Network ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in the context of developing countries and is the first systematic study of applying the life-cycle cost approach to assessing allocations. It presents unit cost estimates of the WASH sector across geographic ... Read more

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  • India Out of Work

    Rethinking India's Growth Story

    by Santosh Mehrotra, Jajati Parida ...
    The race against time has begun, and India is already alarmingly behind. With only fifteen years left of its demographic dividend, India is staring at a stark future – it may age into a poorer nation. Millions remain unemployed, underemployed or trapped in precarious work. India Out of Work is an acute and grave analysis of why the nation must urgently jumpstart its economy and what it will take ... Read more

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  • The Challenge Of Youth Unemployment In Sril Lanka

    by Vodopivec Milan; Gunatlilaka Ramani; Mayer Markus ...
    Sri Lanka has long been regarded as a model of a successful welfare state in a low-income setting, yet it has not succeeded in creating a suffi cient number of "good jobs" for the increasing number of young people. Hence, young Sri Lankans perceive their country as an unjust and unequal society, in which mainstream institutions have failed to address inequalities in the distribution of resources, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Efficiency of Social Sector Expenditure in India

    by Brijesh Purohit ...
    Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty. Hence, budgetary expenditure to be mobilized for such investments needs to be efficiently allocated and utilized to maximize the greatest good. This book focuses on the social sector in India and provides an overview of the sector. The book looks at ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Social Sector Development and Inclusive Growth in India

    by Ishu Chadda ...
    Series series Diverse Perspectives on Creating a Fairer Society
    Many of India’s most disadvantaged citizens face severe social and economic challenges. Social Sector Development and Inclusive Growth in India poses the essential question of whether growth strategies based on the human development approach, that is, social sector development, render growth inclusive. This comprehensive study considers all components of the social sector in aggregate and also ... Read more

    $90.99 USD