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A targeted approach: India's expanding social safety net [1]

India’s sheer size and poverty have meant that addressing the needs of its hundreds of millions of poor and vulnerable citizens has preoccupied Indian policymakers since independence. Unsurprisingly, the mix of strategies, the resulting policy instruments to undergird them and their relative effectiveness have been a matter of contentious debate.

Publication Date: 
24/09/2013
Devesh Kapur [2], Prakirti Nangia [3]
World Politics Review [4]
Tags:
Poverty [5], Anti-Poverty Programmes [6], India [7], Political Parties [8], Food Security [9], Subsidies [10], Food Supply [11], Direct Cash Transfer [12], Maternal Health [13], Housing [14], Rural Poverty [15], Landless [16], National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [17], NGO [18], Health Insurance [19]

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[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/world-politics-review
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/subsidies
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-supply
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cash-transfer
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maternal-health
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/housing
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-poverty
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/landless
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-act-nrega
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ngo
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-insurance