Eliminating Poverty Through Educational Approaches-The Indian Experience

Liberalisation of Rural Poverty: the Indian Experience

A price rise signifies a fall in purchasing power, if there is no commensurate increase in income. Thus the pertinent question in the face of the phenomenal rise during the 1990s in the prices of the food articles, which account for a major chunk of the total expenditure of the poor, is whether there has been a corresponding increase in the incomes of the poor. The present paper is a modest att...

Diets, Nutrition and Poverty: The Indian Experience

This chapter focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient intake over the period 1993–2004 and provide a demand based explanation of this shift. We report on eatin...

Regulatory, clinical, and educational approaches to eliminating restraint and seclusion

Background In response to national media attention on restraint and seclusion (R/S), state and national efforts in the USA have organized around the goal of eliminating their use. Several states/organizations have significantly reduced and stopped using these violent procedures. Participants will learn: 1) How some states/organizations changed treatment practice to prevent inpatient violence, 2...

Economic Exclusion and Poverty: Indian Experience of Remedies against Exclusion

Executive Summary This paper develops an understanding of caste-based economic exclusion and its consequences on poverty of excluded groups, and discusses Indian government strategy against exclusion/ discrimination and policy for empowerment. The caste system as an economic organization is based on the division of persons in social groups (castes) with fixed and unequal economic rights. Compul...

Eliminating Hunger and Reducing Poverty: Three Perspectives