Table of Contents
Introduction;
Section I
1. Public Health in India: Dangerous Neglect;
2. Healthcare Delivery in Rural Rajasthan;
3. Strained Mercy: The Quality of Medical Care in Delhi;
4. Revealed Preference for Open Defecation: Evidence from a New Survey in Rural North India;
Section II Education;
5. Can Information Campaigns Raise Awareness 99and Local Participation in Primary Education?
6. Does School Choice Help Rural Children 118from Disadvantaged Sections?: Evidence from Longitudinal Research in Andhra Pradesh
7. Para-Teachers in India: Status and Impact
8. What It Means to Be a Dalit or Tribal Child in Our Schools: A Synthesis of a Six-State Qualitative Study
Section III
Food Security
9. Democracy and Right to Food
10. Rethinking ICDS: A Rights Based Perspective
11. Mid-Day Meals: Looking Ahead
12. The Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations
Section IV
Employment Guarantee
13. Does India’s Employment Guarantee Scheme 255Guarantee Employment?
14. Heterogeneous Pro-Poor Targeting in 280the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
15. Women Workers and Perceptions of 300the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
16. MGNREGA Works and their Impacts: A Study of Maharashtra
Section V
Social Security Pensions and Cash Transfers
17. Social Security Pensions in India: An Assessment
18. From Policy to Practice: How Should Social Pensions Be Scaled Up?
19. Pro-poor Maternity Benefit Schemes and Rural Women: Findings from Tamil Nadu
20. A Case for Reframing the Cash Transfer Debate in India
Section VI
Inequality and Social Exclusion

21. Why Worry about Inequality in the Booming Indian Economy?
22. Caste Discrimination and Food Security Programmes
23. Mapping the Adverse Consequences of Sex Selection 441and Gender Imbalance in India and China
24. Adivasis, Naxalites and Indian Democracy
Notes on the Authors