India and Livelihoods
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- The potential impacts of Watershed Development as a facilitator of sustainable development in India.
- V.R. Reddy; M.G. Reddy; Y.V.M. Reddy; J. Sussan / Centre For Economic And Social Studies, India, 2004
- It is argued that resource endowments determine the level and dynamics of livelihoods at the household level rather than policy interventions per se. On the other hand, policy interventions, given the status and structure of the econo...
- Factors determining healthcare choices amongst the poor
- I. Gupta; A Datta / Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, 2003
- The poor are both more likely to be affected by poor health, and more adversely affected by it, since they are less likely to have insurance against the loss of income that results from illness. This paper examines the problem of limi...
- Pastoral livelihoods of livestock herders in Rajasthan
- E. Geerlings / GRAIN, 2004
- The Raika are a large pastoralist community predominantly found in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, India, and are one of the largest groups of livestock herders in India, living in the semi-arid areas around the Thar Desert. This...
- Addressing disability within India's social security schemes
- P.M. Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This document argues that the current Indian Social Security programmes do not sufficiently address disability and associated problems of unemployment and poverty at the onset. Since most programmes are linked to formal employment, wi...
- Overview of statistics and social dynamics of poverty in Rajasthan
- K. Mathur; S. Rajagopal; P. Bhargava / Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
- This paper reviews the literature on childhood poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Designed to inform future primary research in the state, it examines the effects of poverty on children, analyses the relationship between liveli...
- The process of creating and managing livelihoods under stress in India
- C. Lloyd / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002
- This report details the process of creating and managing livelihoods under stress in India, through three case studies. The studies look at disaster management in the Indian state of Gujarat after the earthquake of January 2001, livelihood ...
- The shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh, India
- P. Deshingkar; C. Johnson / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people. It shows how design faults, administrative mismanagement and local politics created conditio...
- How are rural livelihoods affected by linkages into the international economy?
- C. Wilson / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This paper examines the factors impacting on livelihoods in rural India. In particular it investigates the effect of structural changes associated with increased linkages into the external economy, on villagers' levels of poverty. ...
- Communication and information services for poor rural communities
- R. Chapman; T. Slaymaker; J. Young / Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2003
- This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT revolution technologies within the li...
- Using the Post Office to deliver social protection to the Indian poor
- J. Farrington; N.C. Saxena; T. Barton; R. Nayak / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003
- India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies. However, implementat...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC)
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC), based in India, has been set up with the aim of helping evolve a path of economic development that leaves as little negative impact on the earth and its environment as possible.
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
