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Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995

Anand Kumar
Navneet Anand
2006

Abstract

This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension debate and related policies in India. In the analysis that follows, we address issues such as: the identity of the drivers of change; the political context in which many of these policies emerged; the intrinsic relationship between poverty and old age problems; state ideology; and the design and implementation of related policies.

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Background Paper to the Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09

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