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Employment strategies for the poor in India: search for sustainability

Abstract

The paper traces developments in approaches to employment management for the urban poor in India. In the process, it deals at length with the changes in the employment planning policy over a period of five decades and brings out the macroeconomic imperatives that led to addressing of poverty issues as a separate sector, having no linkages with the rest of the economy and how the attempts to link them with the rest of the economy have been made and what the outcomes have been.

Further Information

Collections Influence and Impact
Issue Date 2011
Format Report
Rights Holders Practical Action
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