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  • 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

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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

  • Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

    Edited by Almas Heshmati, Esfandiar Maasoumi, Guanghua Wan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the ... Read more

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  • Social Income and Insecurity

    A Study in Gujarat

    by Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, Uma Rani ...
    Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink old policies and institutions.This book sets out a new approach to the assessment of income dynamics, based on identifying the diverse components of people’s income and entitlements. It defines ‘social ... Read more

    $82.99 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

    $64.99 USD

  • The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty

    Pressing Need, Manageable Cost, Practical Possibilities, Favourable Spillovers

    by Anthony Clunies-Ross, Mozammel Huq ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than ... Read more

    $76.99 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

  • The Microfinance Impact

    by Ranjula Bali Swain ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Financial inclusion through microfinance has become a powerful force in improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. In its unique ability to link the existing extensive network of India’s rural bank branches with the Self Help Groups (SHG), the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has covered up to 97 million poor ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World

    Economic and Social Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Rajib Bhattacharyya, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar, Soumyen Sikdar ...
    This book analyses the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 crisis with special focus on India. It examines the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, policy responses to it and the prospect of a severe global recession. It also covers how the pandemic has contributed to considerable suffering among the masses and affected socio-cultural relationships, behavioural patterns and ... Read more

    $58.99 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

  • What is Economic Development?

    A Comparative Performance of Indian States

    by Amit S. Ray, Manmohan Agarwal, M. Parameswaran ...
    Development performance is not merely economic growth and prosperity, but includes a multitude of goals. This monograph makes an attempt to conceptualize development, consisting of eight dimensions – material prosperity, education, health, economic security, personal security, environmental conditions, political voice and social connections. The authors implement this multidimensional concept to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Understanding Poverty in India

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth. This book develops a poverty profile for India in view of the ongoing national and global efforts toward ensuring inclusive growth and bringing poverty levels down. This poverty profile will enable academics and policy makers to reassess and improve on the existing methodologies in estimating ... Read more

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