Evolution of Social Security in the Lap of Public Action: Recounting the Experience of Kerala

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Evolution of Social Security in the Lap of Public Action: Recounting the Experience of Kerala

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K P, Kannan
Pillai N., Vijayamohanan

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This paper is part of a large study on the Social Protection in Rural India and China. In this paper, we attempt at a critical appraisal of the historical development and experience of social security initiatives in Kerala, India. We situate the development experience of Kerala in a conceptual framework of participatory development, which we interpret in a broad context of organization and mobilization of people at specific junctures of historical progress of a society. Thus participatory development, in our view is participation in the progressive process of realization of human rights and thus in development; that is, public action, with an effective public demand and a wiling public supply, conditioned by the legitimate function of the state. It is also attempted to categorize the on-going social security schemes according to the definitional framework of our study, that is, in terms of the definitional division of social security into basic and contingent social security.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 9691.

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H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
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K.P. Kannan, 2002. "The welfare fund model of social security for informal sector workers: The Kerala experience," Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum Working Papers 332, Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum, India. [Downloadable!]
P.B. Rakhe, 2003. "Estimation of tax leakage and its impact on fiscal health in Kerala," Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum Working Papers 347, Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum, India. [Downloadable!]
George, P. S. (Poykayil Simon), 1979. "Public distribution of foodgrains in Kerala: income distribution implications and effectiveness," Research reports 7, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]

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