The long road to social security: assessing the implementation of national social security initiatives for the working poor in India/

The long road to social security: assessing the implementation of national social security initiatives for the working poor in India/ edited by K.P. Kannan, Jan Breman - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013. - xxi, 542 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Preface
Introduction: Unto the Last? (Jan Breman and K.P. Kannan)
PART I: OVERVIEW PAPERS
1. Historic Initiative, Limited by Design and Implementation: A National Overview of the Implementation of NREGA (K.P. Kannan and Varinder Jain)
2. National Health Insurance for the Poor: A Review of the Implementation of RSBY (K.P. Kannan and Varinder Jain)
PART II: ANDHRA PRADESH
3. Functioning of NREGS in Andhra Pradesh (D. Narasimha Reddy)
4. The Business of Health Care and the Challenge of Health Security: The Case of Arogyasri Health Insurance Scheme in Andhra Pradesh (G. Vijay)
PART III: KERALA
5. Functioning of Contingent Social Security Schemes in Kerala: The Social and Institutional Context of Delivery at the Local Level (T.P. Kunhikannan and K.P. Aravindan)
6. Beneficiary as Agency: Role of Women's Agency and the Panchayat in Implementing NREGA-A Study in Kerala (K.P. Kannan and N. Jagajeevan)
PART IV: GUJARAT
7. The Practice of Poor Relief in Rural South Gujarat (Jan Breman)
8. Social Security for the Urban Poor: A Case Study in Gujarat (Darshini Mahadevia)
9. Social Security Schemes in Tribal Areas of Gujarat: A Study in the Dangs District (Satyakam Joshi)
PART V: ODISHA
10. Structural Legacy, Inefficacy, and Weakening Social Securities: A Study of NREGS in a Panchayat in Odisha (Rathikanta Kumbhar)
11. Social Health Insurance for the Poor: A Study of RSBY in Odisha (Amarendra Das)
PART VI: PUNJAB
12. Functioning of NREGS in a Prosperous State: A Study in Punjab (Sucha Singh Gill, Sukhwinder Singh, and Jaswinder Singh Brar)
13. Social Security in Punjab: A Blend of State and Central Schemes (Sucha Singh Gill, Sukhwinder Singh, and Jaswinder Singh Brar)
Notes on Contributors
Index

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