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Social income and insecurity : a study in Gujarat / Guy Standing. [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Standing, Guy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income--India--Gujarat.
- Income.
- Social security--India--Gujarat.
- Social security.
- Economic security--India--Gujarat.
- Economic security.
- Gujarat (India)--Economic policy.
- Gujarat (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink old policies and institutions. This book sets out a new approach to the assessment of income dynamics, based on identifying the diverse components of people's income and entitlements. It defines 'social income' as a broader concept of household income which includes state, community and private benefits. It shows how those components should be measured and provides a composite pictur
- Contents:
- Cover; Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures and Boxes; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Social Income, Globalisation and a World of Unending Uncertainty; 2 Gujarat: A Distinctive Development Model?; 3 Money Incomes in Gujarat; 4 Enterprise Benefits in Social Income: An Unhealthy Dualism; 5 Community Benefits: Communities under Stress; 6 State Benefits: The Inefficiencies of Targeting; 7 Private Benefits: The Operation of Market Forces; 8 Financial Crises: Coping with Income Insecurity
- 9 Restructuring Social Income: Universalising Economic Security, Strengthening CommunityAppendices; Bibliography; About the Authors; Index
- Notes:
- "Copyright: Self Employed Women's Association"--T.p. verso.
- Includes statistical tables.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-224) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-19840-7
- 0-203-08547-7
- 1-283-88594-8
- 1-136-19841-5
- 9780203085479
- OCLC:
- 823389491
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