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Development and Welfare Schemes Towards SDGS : Case Study of Emped Village, Telangana, India
Reddy, A Amarender A. - 2018
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a gigantic task given its 17 goals and 169 targets cutting across many areas. These have to be achieved in synergistic manner by central, state and local governments. Although, state and central level departments work in silos, their actual...
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Targeting of social transfers : are India's elderly poor left behind?
Asri, Viola - 2017
- India's elderly poor. The results show that during a time period of social pension reforms, exclusion and inclusion errors …
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Welfare Schemes and Social Protection in India
Jha, Raghbendra - 2013
This paper provides a broad overview of welfare schemes in India and their impact on social protection during a period … of high economic growth. It summarizes India's performance with respect to select economic and social indicators relative … economic and social indicators for India and discusses India's attainment in Social Protection relative to an index of such …
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Protecting girls from droughts with social safety nets
Chatterjee, Jagori; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …
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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?
Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006
Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
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Mapping development and welfare schemes with SDGs in a village in India, ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad-500059, India, Pp.24
Reddy, A Amarender A. - 2021
The paper examined the various development and social welfare schemes implemented in a village in India and mapping … is conducted in Emped village of Telangana state of India by collecting information from all 287 households to get a …
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Outreach of Welfare and Development Schemes in a Village in Telanagna, India, ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad-500059, India, Pp.28
Reddy, A Amarender A. - 2021
Although rapid economic growth in India has led to steady progress in reducing poverty, it is still much higher in … protect the vulnerable weaker sections. However, the situation is not favourable among the poorest people in India … Kunkudupamula village of Telangana State (India) by using census approach with a sample of 233 households in year 2017. A …
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Social Protection Floors Volume 3 : Governance and Financing
Ortiz, Isabel; Schmitt, Valérie; De, Loveleen - 2017
rural dwellers in South Africa, worker facilitation centres in India, single window services in Mongolia, legal systems in …
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Determinants and Persistence of Benefits from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Panel Data Analysis for Rajasthan, India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - 2013
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social …
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The Rising Cost of Social Security Disability Insurance
DeHaven, Tad - 2013
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is one of the largest federal programs, and it is one of the most troubled. The program's expenditures have doubled over the last decade, reaching an estimated $144 billion this year. Spending has risen so rapidly that SSDI's trust fund is projected to...
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