Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development

Contents: Preface. 1. Normal professionalism, new paradigms and development. 2. Project selection for poverty-focused rural development. 3. Health, agriculture, and rural poverty: why seasons matter. 4. Farmer-first: a practical paradigm for the third agriculture. 5. Normal professionalism and the early project process: problems and solutions. 6. Thinking about NGOs\' priorities. 7. The state and rural development ideologies. 8. Rural labour in Uttar Pradesh its features contradiction and resistance. 9. Markets and states: poverty trends and transfer system effectiveness in the 1980s. 10. Poverty and social assistance. 11. A comparison of poverty and living conditions in the United States, Canada, Sweden and Germany. Index.

"If India is to emerge as an economically developed country and a civilised society the Govt. has to adopt programmes for the alleviation of poverty of this section of the population. It requires government spending on labour welfare and for generating jobs both in the skilled and unskilled sector. This book highlights various schemes adopted by the Govt. of India for the purpose of poverty alleviation." (jacket)