Health

Catastrophic payments and impoverishment due to out-of-pocket health spending

Out-of-pocket payments are the principal source of healthcare finance in most Asian countries, and India is no exception. This fact has important consequences for household living standards. In this paper the author explores significant changes in the 1990s and early 2000s that appear to have occurred as a result of out-of-pocket spending on healthcare in 16 Indian states. Using data from the National Sample Survey on consumption expenditure undertaken in 1993-94 and 2004-05, the author measures catastrophic payments and impoverishment due to out-of-pocket payments for healthcare.

Publication Date: 
19/11/2011
Soumitra Ghosh
Economic and Political Weekly
46
47
63-70
Tags:
Health Care, India, Health Policy, Public Sector, Drugs, Health Insurance, Poverty, Statistics
Forests

The creation of West Bengals forest underclass: an historical institutional analysis of forest rights deprivations

This paper considers the relationship between the emergence and development of state forestry institutions in forested landscapes of West Bengal and the chronic and acute poverty of citizens living there. At least 13% of West Bengal

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
Oliver Springate-Baginski, Soumitra Ghosh, Ajit Banerjee
Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, West Bengal, Poverty, Forest Resources, Forest Villages, Sacred Groves, Forest Products, Land Acquisition, Forest Encroachments, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Afforestation, Forests
Forests

Obstructed access to forest justice in West Bengal: state violations in the mis-implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006

This paper assesses the extent to which the Forest Rights Act 2006, the most significant institutional reform of rights in forested landscapes since Independence, is
being implemented across West Bengal, and whether it is contributing to the alleviation of the chronic and acute poverty prevalent in these areas of the state.

Publication Date: 
31/07/2010
Oliver Springate-Baginski, Soumitra Ghosh, Ajit Banerjee
Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests, West Bengal, Tribals, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Poverty
Forests

Redressing historical injustice through the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006

This paper analyses historical origins of forest rights deprivation and contemporary processes through which local people are seeking to restore their forest rights, taking the case of the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 as an example to illustrate wider issues in historical institutional theory.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Madhu Sarin, & et al, Oliver Springate-Baginski, Soumitra Ghosh
Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth
Tags:
Forests, Land Ownership, Land Tenure, Forest Villages, Forest Act, Forest Rights Act 2006, Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Wildlife, India