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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.

Migration, Bachelorhood and Discontent among the Patidars

Vol. 51, Issue No. 26-27, 25 Jun, 2016
Alice Tilche

Juxtaposing data collected in the 1950s with data from 2013, this paper describes some of the consequences of a crisis of agriculture in India as a crisis of values and aspirations. Among a relatively prosperous Patidar community in western India, agriculture continues to be economically remunerative while farmers are considered poor. Instead, the ability to secure a job away from land, to move out of the village and possibly overseas have come to constitute new markers of status in a traditionally competitive society. The paper departs from common representations of the caste as an upwardly mobile and successful group, and focuses instead on the discontent and on those who try to achieve the new values of the caste, but fail. As a consequence of failure it shows how Patidars recur to what, from an outsider's point of view, may seem paradoxical: in order to "move up" and participate in the culture and economy of the caste, they have to "move down." In this respect, the paper also contributes to understanding the unevenness of India's growth and the contrary trends that work both to strengthen and weaken caste identity.

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