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The paper studies regional difference in employment, unemployment and income in Andhra Pradesh, in the backdrop of demand for separate state of Telangana. The empirical results are based on unit survey data of rural households of Andhra Pradesh based on employment and unemployment surveys...
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entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … broadly in rural India. In this paper, we construct a simple model of a village economy that captures several of the salient … outcomes observed in the village. We suggest that to the extent that there exist other villages in rural India with such …
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This paper argues that the development of the rural economy is a key factor for achieving inclusive growth, one that creates jobs, draws the majority into the economic and social mainstream, and continuously reduces mass poverty. Employment conditions in Philippine rural labor markets and...
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has potential to provide livelihood security in the short and long run. The scheme in the short run can provide wage employment to rural people who are mainly unskilled manual workers. It can also provide them the alternative to migrating to more...
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India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public-works based rural …
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Despite the extensive literature on rural poverty outcome, the labour employment channel has not been carefully investigated for rural Nigeria. The paper used the socioeconomic data from the three waves of the Nigerian General Household Survey Panel (2010/2011, 2012/3013 and 2015/2016 to examine...
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This paper gives a detailed examination of the overall conditions, poverty and income of rural migrants over recent years, using results of the survey on rural migrants from 69,000 rural households and more than 7,100 administrative villages in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous...
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