Employment Generation for Poverty Alleviation and Human Development: Needed Redirections in Policies in India

Abstract

* Professor, JKSHIM, Nitte ** Assistant Professor, JKSHIM, Nitte Introduction This article tries to examine the relation between the extent of poverty and various dimensions of human development in different parts of the world with emphasis on the Indian realities. Though significance of public spending on health and education for enhancing human development in India cannot be disputed, it is maintained here that India can fare well in the comity of nations only if poverty is substantially reduced. It is further argued here that without the generation of productive employment poverty cannot be alleviated because in the ultimate analysis what matters in growth process is rise in earnings of individuals through their own efforts, given the budgetary constraints which both the central and the state governments face.