Future of India's Social Safety Nets

Andaleeb Rahman is Post-Doctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, USA. His research spans food policy, rural transformation and the political economy of development with a geographical focus on India. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.Prabhu Pingali is Professor of Applied Economics and Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University, USA. Pingali is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and an AAEA Fellow. He was president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and has over three decades of experience working with some of the leading international agricultural development organizations.

• 1. India’s Safety Net System, Development and Challenges.- 2. Evolution of Social Safety Nets.- 3. Hunger to Nutrition Nexus.- 4. Poverty and Livelihoods.- 5. Intergenerational Growth.- 6. Health Care.- 7. Filling Gaps in Safety Net Design: Targeting, Modality and Technology.- 8. Political Economy Considerations and Effective Governance.- 9. Way Forward.

“Andaleeb Rehman and Prabhu Pingali’s book, The Future of India’s Safety Nets: Focus, Form and Scope promises a timely reimagining of India’s social safety net system … . The Future of India’s Safety Nets offers a refreshing perspective. … The Future of India’s Safety Nets provides an invaluable overview of the literature on key flagship programmes, with thorough discussions of their shortcomings both in terms of their vision as well as administrative failures.” (Kalyani Raghunathan, Indian Economic Review, Vol. 59 (1), 2024)