Right to Work? : Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar

India's 2005 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a justiciable 'right to work' by promising up to 100 days of wage employment per year to all rural households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Work is provided in public works projects at the stipulated minimum wage. This study asks: Are the conditions stipulated by the Act met in practice? How much impact on poverty do the earnings from the scheme have? Why might that impact fall short of its potential? How can the scheme bridge that gap? The bulk of the study focuses on the scheme's performance in one of I

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Dutta, Puja
Other Persons:	Murgai, Rinku (contributor) ; Ravallion, Martin (contributor)
Publisher:	Washington : World Bank Publications
Subject:	Indien \| India \| Ländlicher Arbeitsmarkt \| Rural labour market \| Recht auf Arbeit \| Right to work \| Arbeitskräfte \| Workforce \| Grundeinkommen \| Basic income
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (295 p)
Series:	Equity and Development
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Overview; Boxes; 0.1 Key Features of MGNREGS; The Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme; Figures; 0.1 Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Flowchart; Tables; 0.1 Summary Statistics on the Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from Administrative Data; This Study; Main Lessons from the Study; Notes; References; 1 Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?; Why an Employment Guarantee Need Not Be Attainable; 1.1 Effect of Local-Level Costs on Meeting Demand under MGNREGS 1.2 Corruption and the Unmet Demand for WorkPerformance in Meeting the Demand for Work across States; 1.1 Summary MGNREGS Statistics, 2009/10; 1.1 There Is No Correlation between Participation Rates in MGNREGS and the Incidence of Poverty across Indian States; 1.2 Program Expenditure per Capita across States; 1.2 Demand for MGNREGS Work Is Greater in Poorer States; 1.3 Poorer States Have Greater Unmet Demand for Work on MGNREGS; 1.4 There Is Less Rationing at the Margin Than on Average across States; Targeting; 1.3 Coverage of MGNREGS across Consumption Quintiles, 2009/10 1.5 Participation and Rationing by Consumption per Person, Rural India1.4 Targeting Performance of MGNREGS across States; 1.6 Targeting Performance Rises with the Overall Participation Rate across States; Wages and Rationing on MGNREGS; 1.5 Participation Rates and Targeting by Social Group; 1.7 Participation Rates for Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes Rise Faster Than That for "Other" Castes as the Overall Participation Rate Increases across States; 1.6 Average Wages on MGNREGS and in Casual Labor, 2009/10; Participation by Women 1.8 Women Get a Larger Share of MGNREGS Work Than of Casual Wage Labor across States1.9 The Share of Work Going to Women Tends to Be Lower in Poorer States; Conclusion; 1.10 The Share of Work Going to Women Tends to Be Lower in States with Higher Rationing; 1.7 Regression Results for Female Share of Employment in MGNREGS; Notes; References; 2 Unmet Demand for Work on the Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme; The BREGS Survey; 2.1 Sample Sizes in Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Survey; Performance in Meeting Demand for Work; 2.2 Summary of Participation, Demand, and Rationing 2.3 Joint Distribution of Program Participation across the Two Survey Rounds2.4 Days of Employment Provided and Demanded in the Past Year; 2.5 Household Perceptions about Why They Were Rationed; Annex 2A; 2A.1 Distribution of Households and Individuals across Strata (Round 1); 2A.2 Sample Size (Rounds 1 and 2); 2A.3 Variable Definitions; Notes; References; 3 Who Gets Work? Who Is Left Out?; 3.1 Characteristics of Participants, Excess Demanders, and the Rest, Round 1; Targeting; 3.2 Coverage of Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme across Consumption Quintiles of Rural Bihar 3.3 Coverage of the Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme across Social Groups of Rural Bihar
ISBN:	978-1-4648-0130-3 ; 978-1-4648-0131-0
Other identifiers:	hdl:10986/17195 [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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