The Long Road to Social Security: Assessing the Implementation of National Social Security Initiatives for the Working Poor in India

by Jan Breman and K P Kannan

This book is about social security, or the lack of it, for the labouring poor in India. It is a critical study of the working of two flagship national social security schemes initiated by the Government of India, namely, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), and the national health insurance scheme called the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY).

Fresh contributions made by senior scholars and researchers, these essays provide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198090315
• ISBN13: 9780198090311
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 552 Pages