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Escaping Poverty: The Ralegan Siddhi Case

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  • Aasha Kapur Mehta
  • Trishna Satpathy

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Poverty remains to be the most important development issue facing India with an estimated 301.72 million Indians (27.5 percent) living below the poverty line in 2004-2005. In 1975, Ralegan Siddhi was just another drought prone, poverty stricken village, but it has had much success in poverty reduction since then. Ralegan Siddhi's success is not just a story of change as a result of access to water. This paper provides evidence of the remarkable economic, social and community regeneration in Ralegan Siddhi, due to a strong, selfless, ethical and accountable leadership as well as its replication in Hivre Bazaar. [Working Paper No. 38]

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  • Aasha Kapur Mehta & Trishna Satpathy, 2010. "Escaping Poverty: The Ralegan Siddhi Case," Working Papers id:2951, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2951
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    Best practice; poverty reduction; Anna Hazare; watershed; equitable development; inclusive; holistic; replicable; reverse migration; selfless leadership;
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