Programme evaluation

The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope

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cornell.edu (05.02.2024) The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope explains how an array of social welfare programs (comprising the safety net) have emerged as a leitmotif of social policy in independent India and explores the key challenges and scope for innovations in redesigning India’s social safety net system for the future. This open-access book provides a comprehensive analysis of India’s safety net by combining insights from a wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship on economic development, social protection, and the social policy process.

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L'exode sanitaire : nouvelle manifestation de la sécession des catégories supérieures | Fondation Jean-Jaurès

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Le phénomène massif de départs d’une partie de la population des grandes métropoles françaises lors de la mise en place du plan de confinement peut s’analyser comme une manifestation supplémentaire – et spectaculaire – du processus de sécession des catégories supérieures à l’œuvre dans la société française. Jean-Laurent Cassely et Jérôme Fourquet livrent leur analyse, basée notamment sur deux enquêtes inédites. 

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Hit and Miss: An assessment of targeting effectiveness in social protection

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Development Pathways (March 2019) This paper is the result of a global review of the effectiveness of different methods of selecting social protection recipients, both targeted and universal schemes. The work considered the effectiveness of 38 programmes across 23 low- and middle-income countries, including means-tested schemes and those using proxy means testing, community-based targeting, self-targeted and pension testing.

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Social Accountability in the Delivery of Social Protection India Case Study

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Development Pathways (May 2018) In their scope, and by the fact that they are legally required, the social audits in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme are an unparalleled collective social accountability mechanism. In the state of Andhra Pradesh, social audits have been institutionalised and implemented across the state. This report, downloadable below, identifies the lessons for elsewhere.

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