Programmes on Poverty Alleviation, Housing, Social Assistance and Rural Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 490-490
Author(s):  
Bratati Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Social Assistance

scholarly journals Indonesia’s Village Fund Program: Does It Contribute to Poverty Reduction?

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Novita Briliani Saragi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Development Index ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Village ◽  
Descriptive Method

To stimulate rural development and reduce poverty in rural areas, The Government of Indonesia enacted the policy of Village Fund in 2014. However, a few studies have been conducted to examine this program. This study describes how poverty alleviation goes following Village Fund Program in Indonesia between 2015-2019. The poverty reduction was represented by holistic data, including insufficient and village status improvement through the Village Development Index (VDI). The analysis is conducted using a descriptive method by dividing the areas into six regions, Sumatera, Java & Bali, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku & NT, and Papua. The result showed that over five years, the village fund dramatically increases. Moreover, this growth is along with the slight decline the poverty. The researchers found that the decreasing number of poverty from 2015 to 2019 is about 15%. The VDI status for districts/municipalities shows that the status improved from underdeveloped villages in 2015 to developing villages in 2019. Java is the region that contributed to making the status improved either to be developing, developed, or independent. At the same time, it is the Papua region known as the region consisting of most of the least underdeveloped villages. Since the goal of this policy in poverty reduction still works slowly, it needs a lot of effort from many levels of government, from the village, regional, and national officials, to work together cooperatively.

scholarly journals Effect of rural development and targeted expenditure towards poverty alleviation in Odisha, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Narayan Rout ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Absolute Amount ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Social Pension ◽  
Per Capita

Objectives: To evaluate the direct tools of poverty alleviation in Odisha, and investigate the response of alleviation programs to poverty. Method: The assessment proceeds with three simple steps of identifying: who, what and how by focusing on four important aspects namely; rural employment, rural development, food security and social security. The causes of poverty are matched with the available tools of active and operational schemes in Odisha state reported by the Dept. of Economics & statistics, Govt. of Odisha and World Bank Survey Reports during the period 2009 to 2011, the corresponding target coverage and progress are located to deduce the end period outcomes of impact on poverty rates. The under coverages shown or identified, were related to respective relevant alleviation programs using horizontal comparative analysis, which shows the changes from the reference period in absolute amount and percentages. Findings: The study reveals that the benefits and outcome of social sector and development programs (rural employment, PDS, development, social pension) have not been realized to their fullest extent. For instance, the coverage of employment schemes is low (penetration is only 3.8% in 2017 and 6.5% in 2018 against 138.53 Lakhs BPL persons) and meager to cause a fall in actual poverty. The coverage under Gopabandhu Gramin Yojana is lower at 40 % in 2019 covering 9229 projects (out of 22,538 targeted projects). Novelty: It demonstrates the use of broader and comparative assessment of key schemes to evaluate the end outcome of poverty rates and matches the periodic poverty limits to per capita gross expenditure incurred by the state. Keywords: anti-poverty; programs; alleviation tools; beneficiaries; Odisha

scholarly journals Role of Rural Development Bank in Women Empowerment: A Poverty Alleviation Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Sirjana Kafle
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quality Child

The study seeks to explain role of Rural Development Bank (RDB) for empowering women from poverty alleviation perspective. More so, this study was conducted in Shankarnagar located in Rupendehi District. Under quantitative case study methodology, necessary data are collected from 120 respondents selected randomly. The results show that Shankarnagar area office of RDB has played remarkable role in reducing poverty in the study area. The social and financial programmes implemented this bank has helped to alleviate poverty in some extent. It has also contributed to increase family income, self employment opportunities, better health and hygiene, better living standard, saving and credit activities and access to quality child education. Hence, better to make further social/financial plans/programmes for reducing poverty in general and empowering women in particular.

scholarly journals Agricultural Policies and Rural Development in Nepal: An Overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Deepak Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rural Nepal

This paper analyzes agricultural development in terms of policy and implementation in Nepal. More than two-thirds populations in Nepal reside in the rural area and most of them depend on agriculture. Subsistence form of agriculture is common in Nepal. Rural Area and agriculture are interrelated; like two parts of the same coin. The contribution of agriculture to national Gross Domestic Product is remarkable; however, it is declining over the decades. In fact, the agricultural sector cannot attract young people; the trend of migration from rural to urban is significantly increasing. The poverty is exceedingly marked in rural Nepal. The Government of Nepal emphasizes agriculture development in for poverty alleviation. Order to alleviate poverty, rural development, and national economic growth through the policy level. However, available data and qualitative analysis reveal that the outcome from the agricultural sector is not satisfactory due to several factors. In such situation, more than half of the population has been facing food insufficiency. Because of weak policy and implementation, the agriculture sector s been suffering poor outcome. In that way, the government of Nepal along with concerned authorities should effectively implement agriculture policies in order to reduce poverty and rural development. The agriculture-rural accommodating policies and successful performance are crucial for poverty alleviation and rural development.

Formalities of Poverty: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
New Development

Abstract:In Marginal Gains (2004), Jane Guyer traces the logic of African socioeconomic practices that have long confounded attempts by modern states to impose what she terms “formalization.” Nowhere is the tension between pragmatically “informal” economic life and putatively “formal” state structures more evident than in the domain of poverty interventions, which typically aim to bring state institutional power to bear precisely on those who are most excluded from the “formal sector.” This article offers a preliminary analysis of some new rationalities of poverty alleviation observable in recent South African political and policy discourse. I will argue that new sorts of programmatic thinking about poverty represent a new development within (and not simply against) neoliberalism, and that they seek, by abandoning the regulatory and normalizing functions usually associated with social assistance, to bring the formal and the informal into a new sort of relation.

scholarly journals Economic Responsibility Audit Transformation and Development of Township Party and Government Leading Cadres – Problems and Countermeasures

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Li Tian
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Rural Revitalization ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
Leading Cadres ◽  
Economic Responsibility

With the implementation of a series of policies to support rural development, such as the national rural revitalization strategy and poverty alleviation, the economic responsibility audit of township party and government leading cadres has been given new responsibilities and missions. However, some grass-roots audit institutions are faced with practical difficulties such as the solidification of audit thinking, slow progress of audit informatization construction, and large gap of grass-roots audit resources. The only way to overcome the difficulties is to explore the transformation of the economic responsibility audit and countermeasures of the township party and government leading cadres by tracing the source and adapting measures according to the difficulties.

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