The world's biggest Employment Guarantee Programme, India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been … in operation in rural India since February 2006. In principle, the scheme is a self-targeted programme designed to … provide 100 days of employment to rural households and to serve as a safety net. More broadly its aim is to reduce rural …

The world’s biggest Employment Guarantee Programme, India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been … in operation in rural India since February 2006. In principle, the scheme is a self-targeted programme designed to … provide 100 days of employment to rural households and to serve as a safety net. More broadly its aim is to reduce rural …

This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …