Poverty and social exclusion in India.
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011. |
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| Description: | xiii, 173 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8842644 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Overview
- Organization of the Report
- Main Findings
- Common Themes
- Notes
- References
- 2. Adivasis
- Poverty and the Gap between Adivasis and Non-Adivasis
- The Survival Disadvantage: Mortality among Adivasi Children
- Other Processes Related to Higher Mortality among Adivasi Children
- Land and Natural Resources: A Central Role in Explaining Tribal Deprivation
- Adivasi Deprivation Is Tied Up with the Limited Voice of Adivasis
- Notes
- References
- 3. Dalits
- Educational Expansion for All: Yet More for Some than for Others
- How Does the Labor Market Behave toward Dalits?
- Social Networks: Does It Boil Down to Whom You Know?
- Voice and Agency Have Accompanied Economic Change
- Conclusion
- Annex
- Notes
- References
- 4. Women
- The Survival Disadvantage
- Markets and Assets: Some Progress, but Continuing Disadvantage
- Voice and Visibility in Public Spaces
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Boxes
- 1.1. Roma in Europe: A Large Ethnic Minority Excluded at High Cost
- 2.1. Melghat: Years of Reporting Malnutrition
- 2.2. Mistrust Is a Barrier to Adivasi Access to Health Services
- 2.3. Distress Migration among Adivasis
- 3.1. Intergenerational Mobility Is Visible, but Restricted among Dalits
- 3.2. State Support and Entrepreneurial Spirit Can Change Outcomes
- 4.1. Conditional Cash Transfers to Improve Survival and Development Outcomes among Women and Girls
- 4.2. Kudumbashree: Innovation for Results
- 4.3. Legislation Can Have Unintended Consequences, Both Good and Not So Good
- 4.4. The Challenge of Giving Excluded Groups Space in Political Decision Making in Latin America
- 4.5. What Do You Want to Do? Who Do You Want to Be? What Is Stopping You? The Aspirations of Young Girls in a South Delhi Slum
- Figures
- 1.1. Rural Adivasi Children: Lower Risk of Dying at Birth, but Greater Risk by Age 5
- 1.2. More ST Children Are Severely Stunted and Wasted within the First 10 Months of Birth, 2005-06
- 1.3. Change in Postprimary Education, by Caste and Gender, 1983-2005
- 1.4. A Small Labor Market Transition among Dalit Men: Out of Casual Labor into Self-Employment
