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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods in India

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  Building budgets from below

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper investigates the degrees of freedom available to women (elected to self-government) to determine local and macro fiscal policies.
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  Seasonal migration for livelihoods in India: coping, accumulation and exclusion

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Seasonal and circular migration of labour for employment has become one of the most durable components of the livelihood strategies of people living in rural areas on India .This paper looks at why some groups within India have succeeded in entering accumulative migration pathways while others have been excluded. The author adopts a social exclusion and livelihoods approach in analysing the liv
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  Sustaining rural livelihoods in fragile environments: resource endowments or policy interventions?

  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 economy, only act as catalysts. Policies for strengthening the resource base are necessary but not sufficient to address the livelihood issues.
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  Inequities in health and health care in India: can the poor hope for a respite?

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 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 limited access of the poor to healthcare in India.
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  The black sheep of Rajasthan

  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.
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  Social security for the disabled in India

  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, without factoring in the needs of disabled people.
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  Childhood poverty in Rajasthan: a review of literature

  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 livelihoods and childhood poverty and wellbeing, and identifies some of the mechanisms by which poverty is transferred across generations.
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  Creating livelihoods under stress: some examples from India

  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.
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  State transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh

  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.
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  Understanding the dynamics of socio-economic mobility: tales from two Indian villages

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper examines the factors impacting on livelihoods in rural India.

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