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The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope
भारत संक्रमण के दौर से गुज़र रहा है लेकिन सभी भारतीय समृद्ध नहीं हो पा रहे हैं. देश की विकास-गाथा  में असमानता का बढ़ना तथा सरकार द्वारा अपने नागरिकों को गरीबी और बच्चों में कुपोषण जैसी अन्य प्रकार की आर्थिक दुर्दशा से बाहर निकालने में विफलता देखी गई है. यद्यपि स्वतंत्र भारत के इतिहास में गरीबी उन्मूलन के कल्याणकारी कार्यक्रम किसी न किसी रूप में मौजूद रहे हैं, लेकिन उनका प्रभाव सीमित ही रहा है. समावेशी विकास के लिए पुनर्वितरण का महत्व पिछले दो दशकों में ही सामाजिक नीति एजेंडे में शीर्ष पर आ गया है. 2000 के दशक के प्रारंभ में, राज्य सरकारों द्वारा की गई विभिन्न स्वतंत्र पहलों के अनुरूप, “अधिकार-आधारित” विधायी सुधारों - भोजन, काम और शिक्षा का अधिकार - ने देश में सार्वजनिक नीति विमर्श के लिए सामाजिक कल्याण कार्यक्रमों को केंद्रीय बना दिया. सामाजिक पेंशन, मातृत्व लाभ, आवास और रसोई गैस सब्सिडी के विस्तार के साथ-साथ किसानों को बिना शर्त नकद सहायता ने सामाजिक कल्याण के लाभों की श्रृंखला को और बढ़ा दिया है, साथ ही चुनावी नतीजों के लिए भी इनका महत्व बढ़ गया है. हाल ही में प्रभु पिंगली के साथ मिलकर लिखी गई अपनी पुस्तक  <anchor>The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope</anchor> में हमने विभिन्न सामाजिक सुरक्षा तंत्रों के माध्यम से सामाजिक सहायता प्रदान करने में भारत के प्रदर्शन का मूल्यांकन किया है, पिछले 75 वर्षों के स्वतंत्र इतिहास में उन्हें कैसे शुरू किया गया, कैसे निरस्त किया गया और कैसे पुनः शुरू किया गया. ऐसा करते समय, हम सामाजिक नीति के डिज़ाइन के लिए भावी चुनौतियों का भी अनुमान लगाते हैं.
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Authors:

1. Andaleeb Rahman

   1. Tata Cornell Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

2. Prabhu Pingali

   1. Tata-Cornell Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

- Introduces a framework to study India’s social safety net system in terms of focus, form, and scope
- Evaluates India’s safety nets according to requisite impact on on food security
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India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn about key initiatives in India that have been implemented since India's independence. This open-access book includes key learnings about the conceptualization, design, and impact of social welfare programs in India spanning more than a 75-year period.

The Future of India's Social Safety Nets provides a comprehensive analysis of these systems by combining insights from a wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship on social protection, economic development, and social policy. It covers India’s social development in terms of three essential aspects of policy design: focus (intended beneficiaries), form(transfer modalities), and scope(developmental objectives). Highlighting the developmental achievements and shortcomings of the myriad of social welfare schemes, this book proposes a framework to foster human resilience through social protection.

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## Reviews

“Social policy received very little attention in India for a long time, despite its prominence in the Constitution. In the last twenty years, there have been significant moves towards a possible social security system. This critical review of recent initiatives is an invaluable springboard for further research and action in this field.”(—Jean Drèze, Ranchi University)

“As technology trends intensify market inequalities, as climate trends exacerbate uncertainties, and as trends in political polarization threaten to undermine social cohesion, there is no question that public safety nets will be a central part of policies to navigate the political economy of the coming decades. But what exactly should these safety nets look like? What design features will enhance their contribution to equality and to efficiency? And what does experience teach us about implementation of safety nets? This excellent volume presents a comprehensive and rigorous assessment of the Indian experience and, in doing so, shows the way forward for India and at the same time contributes to the global debate. It will become a standard reference in the literature.” (—Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University)

“From Independence, India has enshrined basic rights including the rights to dignity and freedom from exploitation. The nature and scope of programs to ensure these rights have evolved as the rural economy transformed and as the planned economy liberalized. Rahman and Pingali clearly elucidate the interaction of this economic transformation and the evolution of social welfare policy detailing the importance of historic and regional contexts. Despite gaps in implementation, they present a vision of the potential for social policy to move beyond palliative measures towards a resilient and inclusive social contract.”(—Harold Alderman, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C.)

“In many ways, India is a global barometer of social protection – a harbinger of developments to come elsewhere in the world. Through thoughtful analysis and novel insights, Andaleeb Rahman and Prabhu Pingali take us on an extraordinary tour of key debates affecting Indian social protection policy, research, and practice. A must read for those that want to understand the past, present, and future of social protection in the country and beyond.” (—Ugo Gentilini, World Bank)

## Authors and Affiliations

- ### Tata Cornell Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Andaleeb Rahman

- ### Tata-Cornell Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Prabhu Pingali

## About the authors

Andaleeb Rahman is Post-Doctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, USA. His research spans food policy, rural transformation and the political economy of development with a geographical focus on India. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.

Prabhu Pingali is Professor of Applied Economics and Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, USA. Pingali is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and an AAEA Fellow. He was president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and has over three decades of experience working with some of the leading international agricultural development organizations.

## Bibliographic Information

- Book Title: The Future of India's Social Safety Nets

- Book Subtitle: Focus, Form, and Scope

- Authors: Andaleeb Rahman, Prabhu Pingali

- Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy

- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50747-2

- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

- eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

- Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

- Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50746-5Published: 03 February 2024

- Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50749-6Published: 03 February 2024

- eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50747-2Published: 02 February 2024

- Series ISSN:  2662-3889

- Series E-ISSN:  2662-3897

- Edition Number: 1

- Number of Pages: XXIX, 439

- Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

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