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Impact Of Public Distribution System on Poverty in Odisha

Vol. 58, Issue No. 1, 07 Jan, 2023
The official statistics show that poverty in Odisha has reduced faster during the second period (2004-05 to 2011-12) compared to the first period (1993-94 to 2004-05). This paper attempts to study the impact of the public distribution system (PDS) on poverty reduction in Odisha during the 2nd period. The NSSO unit level data of the 61st (2004-05) and 68th (2011-12) rounds of consumer expenditure survey (CES) has been used for the estimation of poverty with and without income transfer through PDS. The PDS plays a vital role in poverty reduction in Odisha by raising the real income during the post-reform period, especially from 2004-05 to 2011-12.

Household Consumption Expenditure Inequality in Rural India (1993–94 to 2011–12)

Vol. 57, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2022
Balu Pawde, Tara Shankar Shaw, Pushpa L Trivedi

The comparative role of determinants of household-level consumption expenditure inequalities (henceforth, inequalities) in rural India between two sub-periods, 1994–2005 and 2005–12 are examined, using three rounds of the National Sample Survey Consumer Expenditure Survey. The changes in the components of consumption expenditure and population characteristics are explored that explain inequalities during the two sub-periods, which represent distinct policy environments. We use both a priori and regression-based decomposition methods for the analysis. We find that there is a complete reversal of the role of education in explaining inequalities. It shifted from being an inequality-increasing factor during 1994–2005 to an inequality-equalising factor during 2005–12. This reversal is induced by decreasing consumption returns to education due to the depressed job market. The role of locational factors has increased in explaining the increase in inequalities over time. The non-food components induce an increase in the overall inequalities via an increased expenditure on durables. The within-group component contributes the most to the level of and change in inequalities.

Entrepreneurship at the Grassroots

Vol. 57, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2022
Asit Banerji

Taking the view that the official practice of clubbing medium, small, and microenterprises in one category is not sound, this study points out that these categories are substantially different from each other in terms of size, structure, resources, and business perspectives. Microenterprises, in particular, represent a different ecosystem whose nuances must be understood carefully so as to provide suitable inputs for an effective policy on them.

 

What Must be the Priority of the Budget?

Vol. 57, Issue No. 5, 29 Jan, 2022

Improving agriculture incomes and boosting consumer demand must be the top priorities.

 

Kalahandi’s Poverty and Dana Majhi

Vol. 57, Issue No. 4, 22 Jan, 2022
Deepak Kumar Nanda

The course of historical injustice and feudal-led colonisation in Kalahandi remains uncorrected through a structural exclusion of the marginalised.

The Second Wave of COVID-19 and Beyond

Vol. 57, Issue No. 2, 08 Jan, 2022
Sigamani Panneer, Lekha D Bhat, Louis Rice, Komali Kantamaneni

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with long-standing systemic, functional, and health inequities put the rural communities at an increased risk. Sustainable long- and short-term measures are suggested to efficiently develop strategies to control the pandemic and strengthen the health system in rural India.

 

Economic Impact of COVID-19-induced Lockdown on Rural Households

Vol. 56, Issue No. 44, 30 Oct, 2021
Pratap C Mohanty, Jipson John Jaimon

Through a series of data visualisations, the article attempts to illustrate the economic repercussions of the COVID-19-induced lockdown of 2020 on rural households. It focuses on how consumption, labour and income, healthcare, access to relief programmes and migration were effected by the lockdown in six major states.

 

Do Self-Help Groups Transform the Lives of Poor Women? A Reading List

While self-help groups are seen as vital to successful anti-poverty policies , they have failed to develop the collective bargaining power of women and comprehensively incorporate the demands made by beneficiaries.

Farmer Suicides

Vol. 54, Issue No. 44, 09 Nov, 2019
Manish K Thakur

Unravelling Farmer Suicides in India: Egoism and Masculinity in Peasant Life by Nilotpal Kumar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp xv + 309, ₹995.

 

Rural Change in Times of 'Distress'

Vol. 53, Issue No. 26-27, 30 Jun, 2018
Surinder S Jodhka

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The Convergence of Peasant Struggles Worldwide

Vol. 53, Issue No. 11, 17 Mar, 2018
Remy Herrera, Lau Kin Chi

A plethora of problems face Southern and Northern family agricultures in the current neo-liberal era of financial capital domination worldwide, and has paved the way for the revival of peasant struggles for their social emancipation and legitimate right of access to land and food. Obviously, such struggles also concern all categories of workers and people because what is at stake is the challenge to reach food sovereignty and to build our societies at the local, national and global levels, on the principles of social justice, equality and real democracy.

Village Restudies

Vol. 51, Issue No. 26-27, 25 Jun, 2016
Edward Simpson

An account of the inception, management and initial conclusions of a research project which "restudied" three villages, one each in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat is presented. These villages had been first studied in the 1950s by British anthropologists F G Bailey, Adrian C Mayer and David F Pocock. The new research was to focus on the sociological conditions of life in these villages today and compare the results of the new surveys with the data from the 1950s. The material presented here also points to some of the strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncratic charms of "restudies."

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