New project on Social Security in India

The Long Road to Social Security: Assessing and Monitoring the Implementation of Social Security for the Working Poor in India's Informal Economy is a knowledge project on social security provisions for workers in the informal sector of the economy in India. This project is a cooperation between the Amsterdam School for Social science Research, the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, India, and Hivos. The project focuses on monitoring the implementation of minimal welfare provisions...

The social question, who cares?

While the Shining India operation in the preceding years had increased the wellbeing of the already better-off, the United Progressive Alliance committed itself to ensure ‘the welfare and well-being of all workers, particularly those in the unorganised sector, who constitute more than 93% of our workforce'. A National Commission set up in September 2004 reviewed the status of the unorganised/ínformal sector in India. The Commission — chaired by Arjun Sengupta and with only two members (K.P. K...

BRICS for the future

BRICS for the future When you look to the future you can’t ignore the rising powers such as India, China and Brazil. Emerging powers are changing development and aid as we know it. They challenge the dominant Western approaches to development and provide alternatives to the traditional donors. But what will their impact exactly be? Debates, as usual, swing from optimism to pessimism, particularly so when it comes to Africa.