Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Narayan, Swati

doi:10.1080/13552074.2022.2071978

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Social Welfare ‘Schemes’ to an Economic Security ‘System’

Rahman,

Pingali

2024

Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy

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This chapter synthesizes our arguments with a discussion on how to re-organize the ideas and praxis of social welfare policy in India with a perspective into the future. We argue that fostering development resilience—as the scope of social welfare programs—requires a stronger citizen-state social contract, a pact which recognizes human deprivation not only as material poverty but also along multiple dimensions of well-being. Social welfare programs, therefore, must be thought of as multiple forms of support—with a focus on deprivations along the life-cycle—which together comprise a risk absorbing social welfare ‘system.’ The ability to foster a resilient development process in the future would require this system to be complemented with strong public systems—infrastructure and citizen empowerment—which enable citizens to attain their human capabilities once the risks are taken care of. Building such a welfare system would not only require greater fiscal space—through tax revenues, resources, and rationalization of subsidies—and strengthened state capacity to improve last-mile delivery, but also a prescient understanding of the newer risks and vulnerabilities in the context of rapid economic and social change.

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Social Welfare ‘Schemes’ to an Economic Security ‘System’

Rahman,

Pingali

2024

Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy

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Analysing Post-Pandemic Female Labour Force Participation and Intra-Household Dynamics Through the Lens of Social Reproduction: The Indian Case

Dasgupta,

Mukherjee

2024

Forum for Social Economics

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Whose Participation Counts? Towards Technology-Mediated Equitable Futures of Development Work

Sharma,

Mehta,

Kumar

et al. 2024

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Participatory approaches may empower community members toward their development; however, structural and identity-based factors may impede participation. It becomes imperative to critically examine the politics, dynamics, and rhetoric of participation in development contexts. We deconstruct the meaning, means, and need for participation by situating our study in the Indian government's growing efforts to digitalize a nationwide scheme implemented to support rural farmers' participation in natural resource management (NRM) to achieve secure employment and build climate change resilience. Capturing the situated essence through field studies that include observations, interviews, and focus groups, we systematically analyze challenges to participation in NRM and uncover the technological gaps affecting its workflow digitalization. We discuss sociotechnical considerations to meaningfully design and integrate digital technologies toward supporting equitable participation in achieving sustainable development.

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Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Social Welfare ‘Schemes’ to an Economic Security ‘System’

Social Welfare ‘Schemes’ to an Economic Security ‘System’

Analysing Post-Pandemic Female Labour Force Participation and Intra-Household Dynamics Through the Lens of Social Reproduction: The Indian Case

Whose Participation Counts? Towards Technology-Mediated Equitable Futures of Development Work

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