· Capitalism has helped improve economies of many countries but at same time they have widened the inequalities
· Crores of people still live in hunger, malnutrition, unemployed and their livelihood under threat
· Over 80% of world population lack access to social security benefits
· Many nations in south america have proved that equitable growth can be achieved with conditional cash transfers
o Argentians universal child allowance program
o Bolsa familia in brazil
o Mexico’s opportunidaes
· CCTs have multiplies effects and create more secure societies
India’s CCT schemes
· Janani suraksha yojana aims to reducing maternal and neo natal mortality by incentivising institutional deliveries
· The scheme is monitored based on institutional deliveries and assitances provided but not based on outcomes like health of new borns and mothers
· Most of the public health delivery systems are in shambles despite the efforts under NRHM
· This is again because of NRHMs input based monitoring instead of outcome based monitoring
· CCTs in health can be a success only when we have good public health delivery systems
CCTs and Population stabilisation
· In 1975-77 government followed a populationc ontrol policy based on surgicals terilisation
· It incentivised surgical sterilisation
· The succeeding government rejected this policy however the mindset has remained so
· Correlation between family size, illiteracy and poverty leads many to conclude that large number of children in a family is cause of poverty and ill health
· But the reality is poor is see larger number of children as a safety net in their old age
· Without social security , any conditional cash transfer to stabilise population will fail to meet its objectives
SOLUTION
· CCTs are only aprt of a solution to the problems
· the government shouldn’t abdicate from its responsibility claiming that CCTs will take care of everything
No comments:
Post a Comment