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India and the World: Understanding new modes of engagement

22/10/2010

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35 pages long

Languages: English

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Finance

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This working paper looks at India’s fast growing and emerging economy and its rise in global power by considering how valid this external perception is when, in reality, India’s many States experience widespread conflict, poverty and under-nutrition. This paper reviews some of the future challenges, especially around working in the G20, and in handling issues […]

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Oxfam’s Response to the Department for Work and Pensions Consultation: 21st Century Welfare

19/10/2010

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5 pages long

Languages: English

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Social protection

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In this document, Oxfam GB addresses the major issues raised by the coalition government’s consultation paper: 21st Century Welfare. This consists of three main aspects: an assessment of the principles underpinning the proposals; an analysis of the proposals that are made; and an analysis of crucial elements of welfare reform that are absent in these […]

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Food Security in India: Performance, challenges and policies

04/10/2010

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46 pages long

Languages: English

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Food security

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More people in South Asia are facing malnutrition than in Africa. This working paper examines established policies that affect food security measures in India. With employment programmes such as NREGS, government programmes such as TPDS including AAY, nutrition programmes like mid-day meals, and ICDS to improve food and nutrition security, this paper argues that India […]

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Social Discrimination in India: A case for economic citizenship

04/10/2010

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37 pages long

Languages: English

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This working paper considers how different returns, both tangible and less tangible, are reflected in social discrimination involving individuals with the same entitlements but from different social groups. This paper suggests strategies to tackle India’s State-specific social classifications and manifestations, and the discrimination which has stemmed from people’s position in the class system, in caste/religious […]

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National Rural Employment Guarantee: Issues, concerns and prospects

30/09/2010

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32 pages long

Languages: English

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This working paper critically analyses the performance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), a very large rights-based social protection programme developed post-2005 for the entirety of India which promises ‘100 days guaranteed wage’. The analysis is based on primary field studies conducted by agencies across India as well as from secondary data sources. […]

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Regional Inequality and ‘Inclusive Growth’ in India under Globalization: Identification of lagging states for strategic intervention

30/09/2010

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45 pages long

Languages: English

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Finance

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India has experienced a positive growth in development. With rates of employment, poverty reduction, positive demographic shifts and economic growth all high, India’s natural growth rate in population and fertility varies between the Northern and Southern States. Through statistical data represented in charts and graphs, this working paper analyses the trends and patterns of economic […]

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Elementary Education in India: Progress, setbacks, and challenges

28/09/2010

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39 pages long

Languages: English

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This review of India’s progress towards universal elementary education (UEE) highlights major issues in quality, equity, and inclusion arising from gender disparity, social exclusion, and locational disadvantages. It also suggests six areas for improving public action: advocacy; the teaching profession and teacher training; the provision of after-school programmes; not-for-profit school models; tests, evaluation and learning […]

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Health Service Inequities as a Challenge to Health Security

28/09/2010

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31 pages long

Languages: English

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In developing countries, an individual’s social, regional, and/or economic standing determines the quality of health care that they are entitled to. In India, those of a lower status and/or who have a lower income, suffer both worse health and restricted access to health services – largely the result of inequality. This Oxfam India paper focuses […]

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People as Changemakers: Community based management for right to education

18/05/2010

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper addresses the ways in which the community, a primary stakeholder in any education system, can influence the government’s initiatives to carry out India’s Right to Education Act of 2010. Practitioners, academics and policy-makers have come together to analyse the Act which sets out to achieve the fundamental right to education for all children […]

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Adaptation to Climate Change in India: A Study of Union Budgets

04/05/2010

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86 pages long

Languages: English

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The implications of climate change are affecting many regions in the world; India is particularly vulnerable to the damaging, adverse effects of greenhouse emissions. This working paper is a collaborative study produced by Oxfam India and the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (a policy research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi). It is […]

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