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- Title
Democracy and human development: recent legislation in India.
- Authors
Ghosh, Sujay
- Abstract
Human Development ( HD) requires that development must accompany fundamental human concerns that make life worth living. It is surprising that despite being a democracy, India performs poorly on HD. In this backdrop, four pieces of legislation of different orientations have been passed since 1998-99: 'Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana', the 'Right to Information', the 'National Rural Employment Guarantee Act' and the 'Right to Education'. Where successful, they have empowered the beneficiaries. Though not expressed as such, nor exclusively directed to this end, these pieces of legislation are bound together with democracy's demand for HD: they are influenced externally by various aspects of globalisation; internally, development is continuously interrogated by democracy, competitive politics and social activism.
- Subjects
HUMAN Development Index; DEMOCRACY; IDEOLOGY; LEGISLATION -- Government policy; NATIONAL Rural Employment Generation Scheme (India); POLITICS &; government of India
- Publication
Development Policy Review, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 4, p539
- ISSN
0950-6764
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dpr.12162