Inclusive Development Through Guaranteed Employment - Pankaj, Ashok

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Résumé :
This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). It discusses the theoretical assumptions underlying the inclusive development of Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), and draws conclusions based on robust data and real-world experiences with the MGNREGS ? which has attracted global attention as Indi?s most ambitious, rights-based development initiative and most expansive work-based social security measure, the world?s largest public works programme, and people-centric approach to development. The book argues that the Scheme holds vast potential, and, in fact, has made significant contribution to the promotion of livelihoods of the poorest of the poor, but that the weak institutions of local-self-governance, entrusted for implementation of the Scheme, are incapable of exploiting them to the full. It ends with a concrete policy suggestion: the inclusive development experiences gathered with theEGS and presented here could offer a source of policy change in many developing Afro-Asian countries whose situations are similar to Indi?s, provided the local conditions in the respective country are taken into consideration when designing the EGS. Its significance as a social security measure has increased in post-COVID loss of jobs and livelihoods of the poor.

Biographie:
Ashok Pankaj is a professor at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi. His areas of interest and research are: law and political economy of development in India, with a focus on public policy, institutions of governance and development, and interface between democracy and development. He is a keen observer of rural society of India, and has closely followed rural development programmes, especially MGNREGA. He has conducted about two dozen sponsored field based studies on socio-economic developments in India. He has edited four books, viz. 'Right to Work and Rural India: Working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)', (2012)...

Sommaire:

Introduction.- Development for whom? Moral and Economic Principles of Inclusive Development.- India's Giant Move through Employment Guarantee Scheme: Design Salience of MGNREGS.- Seamless Reach Unto the Last: Self-selection of Beneficiaries.- Layers of Inclusive Development Experiences.- Social Liberation an Unintended Consequences.- Democratization as a Byproduct.- Oceanic Potentialities, Himalayan Hurdles.- Bibliography.