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The welfare fund model of social security for informal sector workers: The Kerala experience

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  • K.P. Kannan

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This paper examines the evolution of the institution of `Welfare Funds' for informal sector workers in the State of Kerala in India. The Kerala experience, which is now thirty years old, reflects what the workers in the informal sector could achieve in countries like India given the contemporary political context and the democratic political framework of the State. But it required sustained collective action on the part of the workers. The paper finds that while the Welfare Fund Model of collective care arrangements for the informal sector workers in Kerala showed considerable innovation in its design and organisation, its functioning is embedded in the bureaucratic system giving rise to a number of problems. Even then the Model offers a minimum of social security to the informal sector workers who are unprotected. Therefore the question of replicating this Model with suitable modifications to other States in India as well as to other countries, where there are no social security arrangements for informal sector workers, is worth pursuing.

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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.
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    1. Narendar Pani & K. Jafar, 2010. "Mass Education-led Growth and Non-agrarian Villages: Long-term Results of the Kerala Model," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(1), pages 25-42.
    2. Fenwick, Colin F. & Howe, John & Marshall, Shelley. & Landau, Ingrid, 2007. "Labour and labour-related laws in micro and small enterprises : innovative regulatory approaches," ILO Working Papers 994038143402676, International Labour Organization.
    3. K P, Kannan & Pillai N., Vijayamohanan, 2007. "Evolution of Social Security in the Lap of Public Action: Recounting the Experience of Kerala," MPRA Paper 9691, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. N. Vijayamohanan Pillai, 2004. "CES function, generalised mean and human poverty index: Exploring some links," Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum Working Papers 360, Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum, India.
    5. repec:ilo:ilowps:403814 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. Pillai N., Vijayamohanan, 2004. "Conceptualizing Social Security in a Developing Country Context," MPRA Paper 95129, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    collective care; informal sector workers; Kerala; social security; welfare funds;
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    JEL classification:

    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General

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