Inclusive Growth and Employment, Poverty, and Inequality : With Reference to SC and STs in India

Chaganti, Ravi and Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2007): Inclusive Growth and Employment, Poverty, and Inequality : With Reference to SC and STs in India.

Abstract

The present study is to examine the state of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs) in terms of their socio-economic conditions. About one third of the Indian population belong to SC and ST social category and they have been considered as the most deprivation sections of the society. How far they fared well after having so many special programmes for their development over the period. What would be the future course of action that may dovetail into the aim of the eleventh plan, i.e. inclusive growth.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Inclusive Growth and Employment, Poverty, and Inequality : With Reference to SCs and STs in India
• Language: English
• Keywords: Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Welfare, Deprivation, Inclusion, Inclusive Growth, Exclusion, India
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

References

Ravi, C and Dev, S. Mahendra (2007) “Poverty and Inequality in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. ().

Venkatanarayana, M. (2005) “On the Non-Random Distribution of Educational Deprivation of Children in India, Working Paper No. 372, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum.