The Future of India's Social Safety Nets - Andaleeb Rahman, Prabhu Pingali

The Future of India's Social Safety Nets

Focus, Form, and Scope
Buch | Hardcover
XXIX, 439 Seiten
2024 | 1st ed. 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-50746-5 (ISBN)
53,49 inkl. MwSt

India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn about key initiatives in India that have been implemented since India's independence. This open-access book includes key learnings about the conceptualization, design, and impact of social welfare programs in India spanning more than a 75-year period.


The Future of India's Social Safety Nets provides a comprehensive analysis of these systems by combining insights from a wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship on social protection, economic development, and social policy. It covers India's social development in terms of three essential aspects of policy design: focus (intended beneficiaries), form (transfer modalities), and scope (developmental objectives). Highlighting the developmental achievements and shortcomings of the myriad of social welfare schemes, this book proposes a framework to foster human resilience through social protection.
This is an open-access book.

Andaleeb Rahman is Post-Doctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, USA. His research spans food policy, rural transformation and the political economy of development with a geographical focus on India. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.

Aditya Shrinivas is Post-Doctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, USA.

Prabhu Pingali is Professor of Applied Economics and Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, USA. Pingali is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and an AAEA Fellow.  He was president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and has over three decades of experience working with some of the leading international agricultural development organizations.

1. India's Safety Net System, Development and Challenges.- 2. Evolution of Social Safety Nets.- 3. Hunger to Nutrition Nexus.- 4. Poverty and Livelihoods.- 5. Intergenerational Growth.- 6. Health Care.- 7. Filling Gaps in Safety Net Design: Targeting, Modality and Technology.- 8. Political Economy Considerations and Effective Governance.- 9. Way Forward.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
Zusatzinfo XXIX, 439 p. 25 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 739 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte Development Economics • Food Policy in India • Governance • Health Care • Indian Welfare Safe • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme • open access • Political Economy • Poverty • public distribution system (PDS) • Social Safety Nets
ISBN-10 3-031-50746-0 / 3031507460
ISBN-13 978-3-031-50746-5 / 9783031507465
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