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  Safety nets and opportunity ladders: addressing vulnerability and enhancing productivity in South Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' in broader development goals.
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  Food security and public distribution system in Rajasthan

  Institute of Development Studies Jaipur, India, 2002

  This paper studies two aspects of food security in Rajasthan availability and access to food for households. The government ensures food security at the household level in two ways: through the Public Distribution System (PDS) and through ensuring entitlements of poor households through programmes such as 'Food for Work'.
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  Linking development with democratic processes in India: political capital and sustainable livelihoods analysis

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001

  This paper examines how far Sustainable Livelihoods analysis helps in understanding the complex power relations influencing the rightful access by the poor to assets and entitlements. Paper asserts that these power relations also influence the range of feasible livelihood options, and the type and level of benefits they generate.
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  Enhancing rural Livelihoods through Participatory Watershed Development in India

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  India is remarkable not only in the scale of its wastelands, and in the volume of government funds committed to reversing degradation, but especially in the attempt to link environmental improvement and poverty reduction.
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  Sustainable livelihoods and political capital: arguments and evidence from decentralisation and natural resource management in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  Looks at the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach as an analytical framework. The potential of SL was examined by applying the framework for analysis in a research project on decentralised natural resource management in India.The SL framework was found to be a useful construct for the analysis of decentralised natural resourcemanagement.
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  Sustainable Livelihoods and Project Design in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  Reviews the design of two new DFID projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India. The projects aim to contribute to the Government of India’s efforts to eliminate poverty through support to its watershed development programme. The design of the two projects ran parallel to the development of the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach and framework.

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