symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• FEASIBLE AND AFFORDABLE
  K.P. Kannan, Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram; currently Member, National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS)

• A HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE
  A.K. Shiva Kumar, development economist and Advisor, UNICEF India, Delhi

• THROUGH THE PRISM OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  Ravi S. Srivastava, Member, NCEUS; Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• RAISING RESOURCES
  Praveen Jha, teaches economics, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning , School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; and Siba Sankar Mohanty, research student, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• SOME REFLECTIONS
  Baba Adhav, social activist; Working President, National Campaign Committee on Unorganised Labour, Pune

• HEALTH INSURANCE: STILL A LONG WAY TO GO
  Anil Gumber, Senior Research Fellow, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK; and Guljit K. Arora, Reader in Economics, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi

• NEED TO TO COMBINE MULTIPLE SCHEMES
  Renana Jhabvala, Chairperson, SEWA Bank, and National Coordinator of SEWA, Delhi

• SOCIAL SECURITY FOR STREET VENDORS
  Sharit K. Bhowmik, Professor of Sociology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

• THE PRIMACY OF POLITICS
  Achin Chakraborty, Professor of Economics, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Sukumar Muralidharan, Rakesh Hooja and Rita Manchanda

• COMMENT
  Received from Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO, Paris; and Sumit Chowdhury, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and Editor, 'Ekhon Sanhati', Kolkata 

• BACKPAGE