Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala

Social Income and Insecurity

A Study in Gujarat

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Copyright: Self Employed Women's Association"--T.p. verso.

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This book sets out to identify the components of social income, going beyond conventional measures of monetary income and showing how the restructuring of those components actually intensify income inequality and insecurity. The analysis is built on a special survey conducted in Gujarat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415585743
• ISBN-10: 0415585740
• Artikelnr.: 29922390

Autorenporträt

Guy Standing is Professor of Economic Security, University of Bath, UK. Jeemol Unni is RBI Chair Professor in Rural Economics, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). Renana Jhabvala is the National Coordinator of Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and President of SEWA Bharat. Uma Rani is Senior Development Economist, International Institute of Labour Studies (ILO), Geneva.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements 1. Social
Income, Globalisation and a World of Unending Uncertainty 2. Social Income
in Gujarat: A Distinctive Development Model? 3. Money Incomes in Gujarat 4.
Enterprise Benefits in Social Income: An Unhealthy Dualism 5. Community
Benefits under Stress 6. State Benefits: The Inefficiencies of Targeting 7.
Private Benefits: The Operation of Market Forces 8. Financial Crises:
Coping with Income Insecurity 9. Restructuring Social Income:
Universalising Security, Strengthening Community Appendices. Appendix A:
The Survey Methodology Appendix B: Measuring Social Income Bibliography
Index