Measuring improved targeting of health interventions to the poor in the context of a community-randomised trial in rural India

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul S. Morris ◽  
M. Kent Ranson ◽  
Tara Sinha ◽  
Anne J. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Randomised Trial ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Rural India ◽  
The Poor

The Paradox of Poverty: Socio-Economic Aspects of Population Growth.— By T. Scarlett Epstein and Darrell Jackson. The Macmillan of India Limited Delhi, 1975. pp.127.

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-382
Author(s):  
M. Javed Akbar Zaki
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Fertility Decision ◽  
The Social

To many social theoreticians, the population explosion, particularly in the developing nations presents a crippling threat to their developmental pro¬cesses. Their argument's validity rests mainly on the assumption that expected economic progress is swallowed up by unbalanced rise of numbers in the population. The book being reviewed deals mainly with this subject matter and is divided into two parts, each containing three articles contributed by various researchers. Part one, 'The Social context of Fertility Decision' is focused on analyzing the role of factors affecting fertility at the micro-level decision making process. The first article 'Fertility decision in rural India' by Vinod Jainath, examines the applicability to rural India of various models of the process of fertility decision making and finds most of these wanting with respect to the Indian social situation. While analyzing the fertility patterns of Rural India, he points out the positive need for larger families among the poor small farmers mainly due to labour supply considerations. The author argues that unemployment and under¬employment actually motivate the poor to have more children as it better ensures their economic security in their old age. As the chances of gaining employ¬ment for their offspring diminish, they are induced to increase the total number of children in order that atleast one will be able to support them. Thus a vicious circle of poverty arises in large families because of each of the parents wanting to increase their children's chances of employment by ultimately reducing the overall employment opportunities even further and exacerbating their poverty.

scholarly journals The contribution of district prioritization on maternal and newborn health interventions coverage in rural India

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
BM Ramesh ◽  
Bidyadhar Dehury ◽  
Shajy Isac ◽  
Vikas Gothalwal ◽  
Ravi Prakash ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Newborn Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Maternal And Newborn Health ◽  
Maternal And Newborn

What Works Best for the Poor in Rural India

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atul Mehta ◽  
Joysankar Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Financial Systems ◽  
Indian States ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty Lending

Financial sector development serves poor directly through poverty-lending approach or financial systems approach. Robinson (2001) questions the appropriateness of poverty-lending approach for the extremely poor and supports the financial systems approach for providing a poverty alleviation toolbox to serve the poor at various levels. The present study attempts to assess the effectiveness of the two lending approaches and comments on the appropriateness of the same for the poor and the poorest of the poor in rural India using state-wise annual data from 1999–2000 to 2011–2012. We conduct a panel data analysis for a sample of 15 major Indian states and provide an empirical evidence for the effect of various poverty alleviation tools on the poor and the poorest of the poor in rural India. The study partially supports the use of tools suggested by Robinson.

Can the poor organize? Public goods and self-help groups in rural India

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj M. Desai ◽  
Anders Olofsgård
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Self Help Groups
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