TY - BOOK AU - Kannan, K.P., ed. AU - Breman, Jan, ed. TI - The long road to social security: assessing the implementation of national social security initiatives for the working poor in India SN - 0198090315 U1 - 368.400869420954 PY - 2013/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social security KW - Health insurance KW - Income maintenance programs KW - Social conditions N1 - Preface Introduction: Unto the Last? (Jan Breman and K.P. Kannan) PART I: OVERVIEW PAPERS 1. Historic Initiative, Limited by Design and Implementation: A National Overview of the Implementation of NREGA (K.P. Kannan and Varinder Jain) 2. National Health Insurance for the Poor: A Review of the Implementation of RSBY (K.P. Kannan and Varinder Jain) PART II: ANDHRA PRADESH 3. Functioning of NREGS in Andhra Pradesh (D. Narasimha Reddy) 4. The Business of Health Care and the Challenge of Health Security: The Case of Arogyasri Health Insurance Scheme in Andhra Pradesh (G. Vijay) PART III: KERALA 5. Functioning of Contingent Social Security Schemes in Kerala: The Social and Institutional Context of Delivery at the Local Level (T.P. Kunhikannan and K.P. Aravindan) 6. Beneficiary as Agency: Role of Women's Agency and the Panchayat in Implementing NREGA-A Study in Kerala (K.P. Kannan and N. Jagajeevan) PART IV: GUJARAT 7. The Practice of Poor Relief in Rural South Gujarat (Jan Breman) 8. Social Security for the Urban Poor: A Case Study in Gujarat (Darshini Mahadevia) 9. Social Security Schemes in Tribal Areas of Gujarat: A Study in the Dangs District (Satyakam Joshi) PART V: ODISHA 10. Structural Legacy, Inefficacy, and Weakening Social Securities: A Study of NREGS in a Panchayat in Odisha (Rathikanta Kumbhar) 11. Social Health Insurance for the Poor: A Study of RSBY in Odisha (Amarendra Das) PART VI: PUNJAB 12. Functioning of NREGS in a Prosperous State: A Study in Punjab (Sucha Singh Gill, Sukhwinder Singh, and Jaswinder Singh Brar) 13. Social Security in Punjab: A Blend of State and Central Schemes (Sucha Singh Gill, Sukhwinder Singh, and Jaswinder Singh Brar) Notes on Contributors Index ER -