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.
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[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/migration
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/anti-poverty-programmes
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-act-nrega
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/subsidies
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