Indian Muslims and the Politics of Affirmative Action

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-186
Author(s):  
Maidul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Evaluation Committee ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
The Government ◽  
Muslim Minorities

Chapter 3 assesses the underlying political logic of community-based affirmative action and reservation that is promoted as the new ameliorative policy, addressing the deprivation of Indian Muslims under conditions of economic reforms. It does so by engaging with the findings and policy prescriptions of the Sachar Committee Report, the Ranganath Misra Commission Report, and the post-Sachar Evaluation Committee Report. Besides, the chapter points out the missing links of the Sachar Committee Report and presents a host of other suggestions that the committee did not recommend for the socio-economic development of Indian Muslims. While evaluating the merits of the Sachar and Misra Commission reports along with defending the ethical grounds for the affirmative action for Muslims in India, this chapter also tries to unearth the limitations of the approach of the government towards Muslim minorities in the context of neoliberal dispensation.

Living on a low income as a systemic impediment to socio-economic development of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
NATALIIA TOLSTYKH
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Subsistence Level ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Government

The article sheds light on various approaches that seek to determine how widespread poverty and life on a low income are in Ukraine nowadays. As a social phenomenon, poverty has traditionally been associated with destitution and living below the subsistence level set by the government. However, the author holds the view that life on a low income not only means living near or below the poverty line. There is another part of Ukraine’s population that should also be considered needy — those whose income is less than twice as the subsistence level, and most of them are also subject to socio-economic deprivation. Drawing upon the findings of a social survey conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine in 2019, the paper analyses the standard of living among different income groups. Particular attention is given to consumption patterns and social well-being of respondents in the lower income brackets. From the data, it can be inferred that living conditions of many Ukrainians are inadequate to sustain and develop human potential; furthermore, the low-income households have literally to struggle every day to make ends meet. The author brings into focus the main macroeconomic factors contributing to this situation and its adverse effect on the nation’s social potential. Some of the most common social consequences of living on a low income have been identified, such as limited consumption, a person’s dissatisfaction with life and his/her position in society. The above-mentioned survey also provides the estimates of how much the current subsistence level (with regard to Ukraine) should be. Having been made by different socio-demographic and occupational groups of Ukraine’s population, these estimates are a useful source of information — given that subsistence level is considered the basic social standard. According to the survey, all these figures are at variance with the official subsistence level, which is noticeably lower, and this indicates that the current subsistence level needs an upward revision. Today, the overall socio-economic situation in Ukraine is unfavourable for neoliberal economic reforms initiated by the government. Since these policies are primarily designed to reduce the role of state in managing the economy and implementing social welfare programmes, following this path will inevitably result in the entrenchment of mass poverty and in a major loss of Ukraine’s human potential, as well as labour force. The author argues that tackling the country’s chronic low income problem is only possible if a new strategy for socio-economic development is adopted, where social welfare is prioritised.

Demographics and personnel – key problems of the Far East and Transbaikalia /

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
A. Tomskikh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Far East ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Natural Movement ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Far Eastern

The article analyzes demographic problems and closely related issues of personnel shortage, which are critically important for the accelerated socio-economic development of the Far East and Transbaikal region in particular. Today, as in the past decades, there is no clear understanding of the solution of these issues in the country, moreover, there is no reliable assessment base that allows to understand the depth of the problems, their localization at the regional and municipal levels and the factors involved in the development of effective management decisions at all levels of government. Therefore, in order to develop a state policy for accelerated socio-economic development of the regions of the Far East, it is necessary to determine priorities that will be appropriately evaluated by the population through its natural movement and migration behaviour. After all, the stabilization of the population of the Far East, and its growth in the future (taking into account the tasks of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation), is a task that should be solved primarily as a geopolitical one. Current mechanisms in the form of state programs: “Far Eastern hectare”, “Personnel support for the economy of the Far East”, “Development of the education system”, “Promotion of the Far East for work and life”, “Far Eastern mortgage” – do not work as effectively as intended. It is necessary to review the approaches to reformatting the region’s economy as a “new industrialization”, with the experience of the Stolypin reforms of the tsarist government and the Soviet era in the 70s of the twentieth century, but on other innovative principles. China demonstrates this quite well, including the Northern provinces. Their experience of reforms, for example in education, indicates a need to change the control system, expressed in the subordination of the majority of vocational schools at the provincial level, which enabled more productive to go to the formula “school- market and the government” and solve those huge human resource challenges faced by a growing economy

scholarly journals Utjecaj proračunskog zakona na upravljanje državom u uvjetima razvoja digitalnog gospodarstva

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Imeda Tsindeliani ◽  
Olga Gorbunova ◽  
Elena Matyanova ◽  
Kirill Pisenko ◽  
Oksana Palozyan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Network Management ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Budget Control ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government ◽  
Rule Making

The subjects of this study are the effectiveness of budget innovations in the field budgetary rule making and the role of the government in shaping fiscal policy in a digital economy. The article makes a case for new approaches to budget formation, for the enhanced use of budgetary levers to boost socio-economic development in the context of global digitalization. In order to make the influence of social informatization on economic development more effective, the economy has to move to a flat (network) management model. The problems of budget control are analyzed

scholarly journals РОЗВИТОК ТУРИЗМУ ЯК ОДИН ІЗ ПЕРСПЕКТИВНИХ НАПРЯМІВ ПОДОЛАННЯ МАКРОЕКОНОМІЧНИХ ПРОБЛЕМ КРАЇНИ В УМОВАХ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЇ СУСПІЛЬСТВА

2014 ◽  
pp. 140-143
Author(s):  
І. І. Шупик
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Quality Characteristics ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Обґрунтована важливість туристичної галузі якодного з перспективних напрямів вирішення широкогокола макроекономічних проблем у період трансфор-мації суспільства, що дозволить стабілізувати соці-ально-економічну ситуацію у країні й поліпшити які-сні характеристики життя населення. Визначеніпровідні напрями впливу туристичної діяльності нарозвиток країни та причини, що їх обумовлюють.Наголошується, що досягнення поставлених цілейбуде можливим лише за умови послідовних і відпові-дальних дій влади, її постійної взаємодії з громадські-стю, бізнесом. Proved the importance of the tourism industry as one of the promising directions of solving a wide range of macroeconomic problems in the period of transformation of society, which will allow stabilizujace socio - economic situation in the country and to improve the quality characteristics of living. Defined major directions of the impact of tourism activities on socio-economic development of the country and the reasons for their cause. Emphasized that the achievement of goals is possible only if a consistent and responsible actions of the government, its constant interaction with the public, business.

scholarly journals “Concept 2020” and the Lessons of the Crisis Development

Federalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
E. M. Bukhvald
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Legal Mechanism ◽  
Scenario Approach ◽  
General Vector

“The Concept of long-term socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020”, adopted in 2008 (hereinafter - the Concept), reasonably can be considered as one of the most significant - since the beginning of economic reforms in Russia – attempt to form an idea of the long-term prospects for socio-economic development of the country, as well as the necessary steps to ensure the stability of this development. The document is characterized by a systematic vision of the actual and perspective trends in the economic and social development of the country; the desire to use a scenario approach in setting the goals of the Concept; the intention to provide the formulated priorities with the necessary economic resources, institutional and legal innovations. Among these items of fundamental importance is the policy of developing economic and legal mechanism of federal relations and priorities’ setting for the state policy of regional development. After the Concept was adopted (this document is currently listed as valid in all databases), it was changed several times. The nature of these changes is very different, but their general vector is clearly visible: to remove from the document those benchmarks, targets, etc., which quite soon after the adoption of the document appeared to be clearly unattainable. The article discusses some of the key items of the Concept and the reasons why the document was not implemented.

scholarly journals Rural Socio-Economic Development through Tourism in Bangladesh: Ways and Means

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Gopal Chandra Saha
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
Negative Impacts

This study endeavors to test the effect of promoting of rural tourism in Bangladesh. Rural tourism can offer assistance in forming our society. It can have both positive and negative impacts on rural as well as urban communities. There's a scope of rural tourism in Bangladesh. The government ought to empower private enterprises to advance tourism in rural areas. For creating the rural tourism we ought to get it the rural environment, demography, socio-culture, financial and political foundation of that put. How we will include the country individuals to improve their socio-economic condition. To create a key promoting arranges for rural tourism we ought to get it the target customer, their needs and how to coordinate it with our rural framework. Rural tourism can create a win-win circumstance for both the rural and urban communities.

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