The sharpening poverty contradictions and their links to a larger governance reality is the theme of this book …

countries like India aspire to grow further and navigate a phase of rapid economic transformation, investments in social … articles take stock of India's major social protection programs, including pension programs, health insurance, the public … distribution system, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The latter two are among the largest anti-poverty …

- India's elderly poor. The results show that during a time period of social pension reforms, exclusion and inclusion errors … the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …