The politics of defining and alleviating poverty: State strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala

Williams, Glyn; Thampi, Binitha V.; Narayana, D.; Nandigama, Sailaja; Bhattacharyya, Debasis

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.06.001

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“…It is being talked about in many different ways. Some studies focus on its potential as a poverty alleviation programme (Williams et al, 2012), while others focus on its potential and achievements in augmenting employment, creating assets, controlling distress migration and enhancing income (Dreze and Khera, 2009;Sharma, 2010). A recent compendium of articles released by the MORD features articles highlighting MGNREGA's impact on increasing livelihood and income security, decreasing the incidence of poverty, increasing food intake, reducing mental depression and positively affecting health outcomes (Shah, 2012).…”

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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India: Examining Pathways towards Establishing Rights-Based Social Contracts

Chopra

2014

Eur J Dev Res

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This article aims to assess the type of social contracts that led to the passage of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) by analysing the debates prevalent during the Act's formulation, and the underlying beliefs about the existing social contract. The article argues that while existing social contracts shape the design of social policies, each policy may also have an aspiration of a particular type of social contract built into its design. Accordingly, it analyses the nature of social contract envisioned in the design of the MGNREGA, and the extent to which this social contract is being realised through the Act's implementation.Cet article vise à examiner les types de contrats sociaux qui ont conduit à l'adoption de la loi nationale Mahatma Gandhi sur la garantie de l'emploi dans les zones rurales (MGNREGA), en analysant les débats qui ont prévalu au cours du processus d'élaboration de cette loi, ainsi que les croyances sous-jacentes concernant le contrat social existant. Nous faisons valoir que, bien que les contrats sociaux existants façonnent l'élaboration des politiques sociales, la conception de chaque politique peut également intégrer l'ambition d'un type particulier de contrat social. Cet article propose donc une analyse de la nature du contrat social envisagé dans la conception du MGNREGA, et dans quelle mesure ce contrat social se concrétise à travers la mise en oeuvre de la Loi.

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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India: Examining Pathways towards Establishing Rights-Based Social Contracts

Chopra

2014

Eur J Dev Res

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“…Research by Williams et al (2012Williams et al ( : 1000 on the politics of poverty in Kerala questions the effectiveness of poverty alleviation policies for their inability to reach those most in need. In the eyes of local farmers, the ban on palm oil imports into the port of Kochi was ineffective and the benefits of the cooperative procurement of copra at minimum support prices failed to reach the small cultivators in Kerala.…”

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Coconut Crisis in Kerala? Mainstream Narrative and Alternative Perspectives

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Véron²

2016

Development and Change

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India's oilseeds sector, which includes its coconut economy, experienced drastic changes in the wake of agricultural liberalization in the mid-1990s. A persistent coconut crisis 'narrative' emerged after sharp price declines between 2000 and 2002 in which small farmers in the state of Kerala, India's main coconut producer, were identified as victims of the liberalized importation of cheap palm oil. This article describes this crisis narrative based on a literature review of academic and official reports, and challenges its problem analysis by juxtaposing it with information from ethnographic research with local farmers and traders. The research indicates that local labour shortages and increased regional competition also had a strong impact on Kerala's coconut market, production and processing, which varied from region to region. Furthermore, small farmers, with their diversified livelihoods, did not recognize a 'crisis' as such. Drawing upon the 'advocacy coalition framework', the article also indicates reasons for the emergence and persistence of the coconut crisis narrative and points to complex processes of restructuring social space in the age of globalization.

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“…In Mayureswar-I, canal irrigation allowed double-cropping of rice, alongside some vegetable production: 45 per cent of the population were agricultural labourers, and other sources of livelihood for poorer households included small-scale trade in vegetables, flowers and fishing, alongside domestic labour and some minor traditional artisanal production. National poverty-alleviation schemes in theory offered routes out of these precarious livelihoods (see Williams et al, 2012): up to 100 days' work for registered unemployed households (via NREGP), credit for microenterprises based around selfhelp groups (via the SGSY), and further support for the most deprived neighborhoods (through the RSVY).…”

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Managing political space: authority, marginalised people’s agency and governance in West Bengal

Williams

Nandigama

2018

International Development Planning Review

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The politics of defining and alleviating poverty: State strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India: Examining Pathways towards Establishing Rights-Based Social Contracts

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India: Examining Pathways towards Establishing Rights-Based Social Contracts

Coconut Crisis in Kerala? Mainstream Narrative and Alternative Perspectives

Managing political space: authority, marginalised people’s agency and governance in West Bengal

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