To what extent did the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA) Impact Women in Rural Areas?
This paper analyses the extent to which the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA) impacted women in rural areas. The paper achieves this goal by exploring and comparing various different research papers on the implementation of MGNREGA. The results are divided into 3 categories - the scheme’s impacts on the rural labour market, on female empowerment and its indirect impacts on education and poverty. The results suggest that the program benefited women. It increased their wages, reduced the gender wage gap in some states, increased the probability of women being employed, increased their bargaining power in their household and increased the ability to meet their own needs. Despite the positive impacts, MGNREGA also led to an increase in violence against women. The scheme also led to increased spending on the education of women, complemented by an increase in the time children spent in their school and an increase in their grades. The poverty level of participants also reduced
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[2021]
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Authors: | Shah, Heya |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Ländlicher Raum | Rural area | Indien | India | Ländlicher Arbeitsmarkt | Rural labour market | Weibliche Arbeitskräfte | Women workers | Arbeitsmarktpolitik | Labour market policy | Zweiter Arbeitsmarkt | Intermediate labour market |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (30 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 10, 2021 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.3921014 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212806
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