of the assets and scope for poverty reduction; (b) discuss imperatives for convergence with developmental programmes … secondary data as well as the existing literature on impact of various employment generation schemes as well as developmental …

about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. It assesses the structural changes in terms of employment of …, returns to scale and productivity. …

The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of â …€˜jobless growth’. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in agriculture sector that … include low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness. Under the typical neoclassical tradition …

growth, and redistributive (transfer) programmes. This paper proposes twin concepts and measures of convergence (κ*) and … pseudo-convergence (pseudo-κ*) to characterize such outcomes. Unlike the conventional measures of convergence, they can …

To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that … issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the policy process: policy formulation …, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. There are many questions related to convergence that must be asked at each of these …

The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given … and socio-economic data is used to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of …

a status report on convergence initiatives. [NIRD]. …