Examines the adequacy of existing programmes to offset the adverse effects of structural adjustment, such as the Integrated Rural Development Scheme and the rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Maharashtra, and suggests further policy measures.

Working paper on a theoretical approach to rural and urban employment creation in development policy and the implications for rural development, based on the case of India. Analyses traditional theories of industrialization and their limitations, examines the employment potential of industrial...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the decentralization of planning in India - discusses objectives, institutional framework, resource allocation, administrative aspects, co-ordination between local level and national planning, etc., includes case studies of rural development and rural employment...

Shows, in the context of the tribal belt of the state of Rahasthan, that defective agrarian structure contributes to both impoverishment and environmental degradation.