Governance And Institutions

Progress in providing employment for the poor

This report examines the progress that MGNREGA has made in the rapid expansion of employment provision through its demand-driven rights-based approach. It highlights experiences from states that have successfully implemented the Act and discusses the evidence on the impacts on poverty and social inclusion in India.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Rebecca Holmes, Jenny Morgan
Overseas Development Institute
Tags:
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), India, Unemployment, Poverty, Governance, Governance And Institutions
Agriculture

Governance for a resilient food system

Today, the world produces enough to feed all seven billion of its inhabitants – but nearly a billion people still go without. This paper is about why this global scandal continues, and what can be done to solve it.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
Alex Evans
Oxfam International
Tags:
Food Security, Governance, Agriculture, Food Prices, India, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Developing Countries, Malnutrition, Climate Change, Poverty

Dungarpur Collector's recommendation initiates social audit of fair price shops

To ensure transparency in delivery of commodities to the poor in Rajasthan The Rajasthan Government has decided to conduct the much sought-after social audit for fair price shops functioning under the public distribution system (PDS) to ensure transparency and effectiveness in the delivery of essential commodities to poor people.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2011
Mohammed Iqbal
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Rajasthan, Public Distribution System (PDS), National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Panchayats, Dungarpur (D), Poverty, Gram Sabhas, Wheat, Kerosene
People

Global crises, welfare provision and coping strategies of labour in Tiruppur

Even as state governments invest in social welfare measures, they are forced into constant competition with one another to attract private investments, offering a good “investment climate” that includes access to a low cost workforce and a physical infrastructure geared towards capital accumulation. The need to provision welfare within an accumulation regime premised on global competition, fiscal austerity and marketisation, and a simultaneous need to reduce labour costs and to ensure social security, to exclude and include labour appears paradoxical.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2011
M Vijayabaskar
Economic and Political Weekly
46
22
38-45
Tags:
Textile Industry, Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, Workers, Cotton, Unemployment, Migration, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Subsidies, Poverty, Exports, Trade
Environment

Tourism hope in forest project

Disoi reserve forest (Assam-Nagaland border), May 22: The foothills of this hilly rain-fed reserve forest may soon turn into a picturesque tourist destination as well as a farmers

Publication Date: 
23/05/2011
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Forests, Tourism, Water Harvesting, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Ecotourism
Food Policy

NAC to Prevail on Food Security Law

Govt likely to accept most of the council

Publication Date: 
23/05/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Food Policy, India, Legislation, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies, Subsidies
Poverty

Cash transfers as the silver bullet for poverty reduction: A sceptical note

The current perception that cash transfers can replace public provision of basic goods and services and become a catch-all solution for poverty reduction is false. Where cash transfers have helped to reduce poverty, they have added to public provision, not replaced it.

Publication Date: 
21/05/2011
Jayati Ghosh
Economic and Political Weekly
46
21
67
Tags:
Poverty, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Services, Food Security, Food Prices, Food Supply, India, South Asia, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Women, Delhi
Economy

Marketing a myth

Narendra Modi seems to have set aside Hindutva to appease big business while the human development indices of Gujarat keep falling.

WHEN Anna Hazare praised Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his achievements in rural development in Gujarat, it resulted in a slew of messages to the veteran Gandhian from outraged non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and activists.

Rohit Prajapati and Trupti Sh

Publication Date: 
20/05/2011
Lyla Bavadam
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Gujarat, Development, Rural Roads, Rural Electrification, Croplands, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Drinking Water, Irrigation
Economy

Shrink PDS & rework NREGA, World Bank tells India

New Delhi A World Bank review of India

Publication Date: 
19/05/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), World Bank, India, Poverty, Food Supply, Unemployment, GDP, Economy
Poverty

Expand rural poverty schemes for urban poor: World Bank

The World Bank has asked policymakers in India to stop neglecting urban poverty and expand the scope of some rural flagship schemes to urban areas.

It has called for a shift in focus in policy to address poverty as demographic changes and intense migration have dampened poverty reduction rates in urban areas.

In a report called

Publication Date: 
19/05/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
World Bank, Rural Poverty, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Food Supply, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Health Insurance, Census/ Habitat Monitoring

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