Showing posts with label World Bank. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Stabbing by the own brethrens

It’s for the second time that India is involved in fraud in health

It is now two years in a row that Indian had been found to be engaged in fraud in health schemes by the World Bank. Last year, the World Bank barred two Indian pharmaceutical firms, from doing business with the institution for “corruption practices” related to a health project. This year again, World Bank had uncovered “serious incidents” of fraud and corruption in five health projects in India. The projects involved in the latest review included a $193.7 million programme to tackle HIV/Aids, a $124.8million tuberculosis scheme and a $114million malaria programme.

The GoI and the World Bank have mutually decided to fight corruption and scrutinise the ongoing and future projects. The World Bank has further directed its bank’s anti-corruption unit, the Department of Institutional Integrity, to pursue evidence for legal action. According to report there were weaknesses and systematic flaws in project design. It’s no surprise that India scored very high, repeatedly, in corruption and bribery perception index. These frauds are not only deteriorating India’s image on global forum but also depriving million of diseased people from getting proper medical facility. This repeated corruption track record would also de-motivate global forums and other donators from helping India’s worst-offs.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

The dark side of a bright idea...

NREGA is at fault but not for the reasons stated by World Bank...

Recently in its ‘World Development Report 2009, World Bank has described the much hyped UPA’s flagship program NREGA as a social barrier. According to the report, since NREGA is confined to rural areas and promises 100 days of employment, it in turn forces the unemployed rural crowd to remain in their villages and await their turn. This eventually reduces the rural migration, which (according to the report) is very important to uplift people from poverty. Now this is where lies the fallacy of World Bank Report. One of the most important reasons for the existence of the slums in India’s urban centres is the huge influx of rural people that happen in all these places all the time. For a country as big as India, it has too few big cities. And in the absence of any vibrant economic activity or infrastructure in most parts of rural India, people over there have no option but to migrate. Yet there is a limit on how much India’s cities can withstand the pressure of the influx. Thus, it becomes important that the right kind of economic activity is created in rural India. And for that to happen it’s crucial to create infrastructure in rural India and to empower the villagers with the right kind of education and health facilities. What actually is being done with NREGA is nothing but the creation of disguise unemployment as there are several restrictions on the use of machines and raw materials in the works done under NREGA. The objective seems not to create social assets like schools and hospitals with local labour or impart skill sets to make them employable but just to keep them engaged with labour work which would never benefit rural India in the long run. This is where NREGA is at fault and not the way as World Bank states. More migration would mean more slums.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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